With great power comes great responsibility.
Now, with a good 25 percent, the SPD did not achieve a superhero-like result on the day of the federal election.
But in these eventful and moving times, that is enough to have a decisive influence on the occupation of the top government.
But that also means: you have to take the party at its word.
Olaf Scholz, the Federal Chancellor-designate, has called himself a feminist several times.
The outgoing Chancellor didn't say that.
Scholz has promised a cabinet with equal representation.
That will be tedious enough.
It would have been all the more grotesque if the SPD hadn't found a suitable woman for the Chancellery, Bundestag Presidium and Federal Presidial Office, i.e. the state leadership had been almost exclusively male.
Because there is also a man before the Federal Constitutional Court, and there are only a few female prime ministers.
But these officials represent Germany.
And they should represent reality.
You don't even have to call yourself a feminist to want and promote that.
But simply a realist.
Bas will have to find her own style
Bärbel Bas, presumably the soon to be second woman in the state, should only know a few citizens so far. The SPD, emaciated after many years of drought, no longer has many beaming parliamentarians to muster. Bas lived a different life than their predecessors Wolfgang Schäuble and Norbert Lammert, who also filled the office with their charisma. Bas will have to find her own style. All parties like to claim that they want to strengthen parliament as a democratic center. That should also be the new president's plan.
Lammert had once given the floor to critics of the? Euro bailout policy, to the annoyance of the federal government.
This speaks of a different understanding of official courage than that of a still-incumbent Bundestag Vice President, who sometimes rebelled, sometimes rude about the government's corona policy.
The format has to be added to the proportional representation.
But that can also grow.