display
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Who could follow in the footsteps of Winfried Kretschmann among the Greens in Baden-Württemberg?
The 72-year-old Prime Minister did not want to commit himself to the “Heilbronn vote” in the “election check” on Tuesday evening, but gave an interesting hint: “The second most important office after the Prime Minister is that of the parliamentary group leader of a ruling party.”
That is the Kirchheimer Andreas Schwarz.
"And nothing works without him," said the head of government just under three weeks before the state elections.
And then one could also ask who has become Prime Minister in Baden-Württemberg?
"He was usually the parliamentary group chairman."
It doesn't have to be like that again now, but he would like to give this hint, he said.
In fact, Kretschmann himself was a parliamentary leader in the state parliament before he was promoted to head of government.
And his two predecessors Stefan Mappus and Günther Oettinger each headed the CDU parliamentary group before they came to the office of Prime Minister.
Kretschmann also said that he had learned from Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) that one should not interfere in the successor.
"The successor can only be determined in a monarchy, not in a democracy," he explained.
When asked whether he would hold out for the full five years if he won the state election, he said: Hopefully that will be the case if he stays in good health and strength.
display
Recently, the question arose again whether the extremely popular Kretschmann would actually go through a third legislative period as head of government.
For example, Oettinger, who was Prime Minister himself from 2005 to 2010, said that Kretschmann was only rolled onto the battlefield as a “Trojan horse” by his party.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210223-99-564558 / 2