Senior SDP figures hold talks on candidate for chancellor amid speculation about switch to popular defence minister
Boris Pistorius and Olaf Scholz on a visit to a German army barracks in September. Pistorius has consistently proved more popular in polls.Boris Pistorius and Olaf Scholz on a visit to a German army barracks in September. Pistorius has consistently proved more popular in polls., is under mounting pressure to step aside as his party’s candidate for the job in February’s snap election in favour of his defence minister, Boris Pistorius, the most popular politician in the country.
German federal elections are contested between political parties competing for seats in the Bundestag, but it is convention for the larger parties to also nominate a chancellor candidate to lead the government.after he fired his pro-business finance minister Christian Lindner. He has stated he is seeking a second term at the helm of the EU’s top economic power.
Wolfgang Schroeder, a political scientist at the University of Kassel, told the Funke media group that the only thing missing for a putsch was “the Pelosi moment”, referring to the veteran DemocratThe centre-left Süddeutsche newspaper noted that Scholz had begun as a “reliable handyman” at the levers of power but had never recovered from alast year that ripped a €60bn hole in the federal budget, robbing the government of funds for renewal projects and touching off a bitter austerity debate...
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