One can understand it: the SPD does not rule out a former chancellor, at least not the arbitration commission of the Hanover subdistrict.
Gerhard Schröder, who truly worked for everything himself, did not actually donate to the CDU or give the impression that the members of some peoples or religions were a little behind.
Such things have already led to the exclusion from the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which sees itself as a bulwark of peace and understanding like no other.
And so the rejection of the applications of 17 subdivisions comes as a bit of a surprise: Schröder continues to let nothing be said about his friendship with Kremlin Mr. Putin, who continued to support him after the end of his chancellorship.
The SPD needs to know whether the deep connection to a tyrant and the interdependence with his empire really do not yet represent an intentional or significant violation of the statutes and principles of the party.
After all, Schröder actually supports, despite verbally distancing himself from the fighting, the leader of a devastating war of aggression unprecedented in recent history, which fundamentally violates the UN Charter and the Basic Law and has already called the International Criminal Court in The Hague into action.
Ultimately, the SPD must know who it is keeping in its ranks.
The justification is to see how difficult it is.
Did Schröder cause "severe damage" to the party?
Or would an exclusion make it even bigger?
Quite a few members are against expelling the former chancellor.
This sadly reflects the procrastination and hesitation of the current SPD-led federal government.
Schröder is only the extreme case of a policy that draws disastrously wrong conclusions from Germany's situation and history.
Anyone who leaves room for Moscow's striving for conquest will soon actually only be Putin's local governor.