The re-election of the SPD-Faction leader, with a narrow two-thirds majority, is for Raed Saleh is not only a perceived defeat, which can be casually put away. He must now make serious thoughts about the progress of his political career.
As it also doesn't help that Saleh Enjoyed on Tuesday evening by the chip duration, whose Chairman he is, like a football star to celebrate. Stormy "Raed, Raed!"-Calls tend to be a bit embarrassing. And that, of all things, in the presence of the also battered SPD party leader Andrea Nahles, who don't know what the future will bring her.
In two years, when the house of representatives is re-elected, Saleh ten years in office – and only 43 years old. The office of the group Chairman, but has not in any party Ever. While it is true that the conscious and tricky social-Democrat, one of the few Berlin Enjoyed the ideas, Charisma, and assertiveness. But he is also a first-person Shooter, and on her rare good.
Saleh has made in the past few years, increasingly vulnerable, as the majority purchasers in their own right and with a working and a policy style that is just tailored to him, and Trusted confidant, and the work faithful to him.
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so What is from him, if the SPD parliamentary group would find after the Berlin election in 2021, the strength, with new staff set up? Maybe Saleh is not yet the timely Jump into the Bundestag, Senator, he is safe. He can do a lot, but not political management. Also gone are the days where Saleh as a beacon of hope has been traded to the feeding, according to Michael Müller in the Red town hall. Especially since the Berlin social Democrats can hardly expect, if not a miracle happens, to be in two years, the strongest force and the head of government.
It is so closely for the man of Spandau. And it is already tight for the Berlin SPD, the staff ceiling is now so narrow that it is apparently not even possible to occupy the group's presidency for half of the term, or to Supplement at least with a female Co-chairs. This should also sound to those Enjoyed, in which Saleh's personal future is shooting in the ears.
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