The German SPD renews its leadership

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The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) has renewed its executive this Saturday after the carousel of positions caused by the retirement of one of its co-presidents,

, and with the aim of closing ranks around the new tenant of the Foreign Ministry, Olaf Scholz, who asked his co-religionists for support in the task of Government. He received it in the form of an ovation, but the words of the only Social Democratic leader invited to the congress, the Swedish Prime Minister,

, were missing

. Shortly after landing in Berlin, Andersson headed back to Stockholm because a member of his delegation tested positive for Covid.

The congress passed according to the script. Without the internal debates that have kept the SPD on the volcano until the appointment of Scholz as head of the list for the elections that gave him victory and without alternative candidacies to those already announced,

with 76.7% of the votes. His new colleague, the hitherto organizational secretary,

, got 86.3%.

The post that Klingbeil vacated passes into the hands of

, former leader of the Socialist Youth (Jusos) and the main architect of Scholz's defeat at the time of the party's Presidency. In recent days, a video has been broadcast in which Kühnert is seen receiving with joyful laughter the result of the primaries that Scholz lost against Esken and Walter-Borjans while saying "we have achieved it". But no one wants to remember that anymore, not even Kühnert himself, who, in his ascending career in the party, and until now always elbowing his elbows, has turned the sins of yesteryear into virtue.

, he maintains.

Künhert obtained in his election a 77.78% of votes in favor.

All the votes of the Jusos went to him.

With the 32-year-old Kühnert as general secretary and Esken as co-chair, Scholz, who has no positions in the SPD, has a clear shoulder.

Both will have to keep internal discipline at bay and drown the criticisms that will undoubtedly arise in the formation once the honeymoon of the first 100 days of Government with Greens and liberals is over.

Klimbei, who comes like Scholz from the more conservative sectors of German Social Democracy, has already emphasized

. And the reason is simple. Once the chancellery has been achieved, although with one of the worst results ever obtained by the SPD, the electoral calendar is not closed. Elections will be held next year in the federal states of Saarland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony.

, warned Klimbei, a pragmatic and inclusive politician who, at 43 years old, is positioning himself for the future in a strategic position in the party.

And a victory is not enough because that of the SPD with Scholz in the generals on September 26 does not reflect the real situation of the party.

His victory was more the result of the opponent's weakness and wear after 16 years of Government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) than of the social democratic euphoria and passion for the candidate Scholz.

The SPD won the general elections with 25.7% of the vote and became a hero.

The SPD candidate in the 2013 elections,

, got exactly the same result, but then he was a failure and became a villain.

This is politics.

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