Four years ago, when the Berlin Social Democrats confirmed Governing Mayor Michael Müller in the office of party chairman with only around 65 percent of the votes, it was the beginning of the end of his career as a state politician.
However, it is not to be expected that his successor Franziska Giffey could do the same with the more embarrassing result of 60 percent when she was re-elected as state chairwoman.
After retiring from federal politics, Giffey has no choice but to put on a good face to every evil game hatched by the decidedly left-wing majority of her state association in cooperation with the Greens and the Left Party.
Giffey and Saleh are the waiters - not the cooks
The fact that the former Federal Minister for Family Affairs promised a more middle-class and thus more inclusive policy during the election campaign a year ago and that was the only reason why she gave her SPD a (slight) lead over the Greens on September 26 – tempi passati.
Giffey and parliamentary group leader Raed Saleh (57 percent!) are still not the cooks, but the waiters.
What they order, others do - and they have long experience in preventing, delaying and watering down infrastructure projects, social housing construction, effective educational policy or administrative modernization.
All citizens have to spoon up the soup, not just the voters of three left-wing parties.