Before Lars Klingbeil there are two crucial and delicate months. At the end of June, the Social Democrats come together for their party congress. The Bundestag election result will be critically discussed again – actually the party will actually discuss the disaster for the first time. It was the worst result in the history of the SPD, but for Klingbeil personally it could hardly have gone better. Since then, he has not just been the party, but also to the faction, and all the threads come together with him. Now he has to make important decisions for the future, and soon to determine Klingbeil his own role. He should have weighed both options over the Easter holidays: does he go to the cabinet as finance minister and Vice Chancellor, or does he remain parliamentary chairman? Klingbeil has repeatedly discussed this question in the past few days, can be heard. One of his closest interlocutors is general secretary Matthias Miersch. Klingbeil does not seal off. Most in the party leadership advise him to switch to the cabinet. As a minister you are visible and gain government experience. Both are important for Klingbeil if he wants to become a candidate for SPD Chancellor in the next federal election. Then he needs a loyal parliamentary group leader who has the MPs under control. It is also conceivable that it installs a double tip so that there is no further power center in the SPD. If you are responsible for the Bundestag election result? Klingbeil himself is a parliamentary group leader, he could keep more distance from a Chancellor Friedrich Merz and stage himself as an alternative strength. The SPD assumes that Merz will focus on the international work. For Klingbeil, some domestic space would remain, according to hope. As a parliamentary group leader, he would have a wide instrument available. Group leader are powerful, probably more powerful than some ministers. Activate external content, but your power is not easily recognizable and conveyed in public. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who is the only personnel set in the SPD, would in this case vice chancellor. The already popular Pistorius could then continue to rise. The debate about the SPD Chancellor candidate in autumn showed that it is flatterable. He would be a strong competition for Klingbeil. In all the speculation as to who will be what in the SPD and the black and red coalition, one question is almost forgotten: Who is responsible for the historically poor election result from February 23 and are consequences? Klingbeil obviously not. And even if the majority in the SPD sees its increase in power as unavoidable, it is now the more skeptical of his approach. The co-chair Saskia Esken, about whom many are upset about in the party, should hardly have a chance of re-election. If she competes again at the party congress, she would probably get a candidate – who would probably win. For a reasonably facial solution, Klingbeil would now have to suggest an orderly withdrawal. The question of who draws consequences remains open. One clear cut has made only one: Olaf Scholz. The executive Chancellor has experienced the last few days in office. The chief negotiators of his party continuously informed him about the coalition negotiations. In some questions, Klingbeil Scholz said in reports that how far can we go in migration policy? What are our red lines? Should we claim the Foreign Ministry for ourselves? Klingbeil is easy to have a team to collect the box so far to start his Bundestag mandate, which he won in Potsdam. Beyond Berlin, he is the only directly elected MP in East Germany who belongs to the Democratic center. The remaining direct mandates mainly went to the AfD; two to the left. Scholz will probably not move into a committee; He will not stand in the way of the new management team of the SPD. A few days ago, Scholz recorded a short video in which he advertises the coalition agreement – and thus indirectly for the choice of his successor Merz. However, it will not be enough for the reorganization of the SPD to simply complete the short era Scholz. Secretary General Miersch now wants to process the 16.4 percent with a commission. There should be an initial interim report on the party congress. The battle situation in June can already be imagined in great ways: here is the SPD government team, which praises the course of the middle, the party left and Jusos, to whom the SPD only appears as a stirrup holder for Merz. Klingbeil, who must remain party leaders in the SPD’s logic of power, should be able to read the mixed emotional situation in the party of his election result. The fact that he gave the 38 -year -old Josephine Ortleb the post of the Bundestag Vice President, which was actually intended for veteran parliamentarians, made the party struck. He is obviously serious about the generation change. Some would have been satisfied with this if they stayed what they are: Miersch General Secretary, Katja Mast Parliamentary Managing Director. Klingbeil wants to introduce the SPD’s cabinet members next week, after completing the membership vote on the coalition agreement on Tuesday. On request, the SPD does not want to say an intermediate score, even for voter sharing, and Klingbeil represents the approach that success can be organized in politics, which is a question of the right planning and strategy. That is why it is easier for him to collect a team to collect a team because the right top person is only a factor of many according to his policy approach. Nevertheless, Klingbeil wants to be this top person. The SPD has often put all its hopes for one person, especially in times of low. Sometimes that went well, but often not.
