It needs more carers : With Pizza policy in the East

wife of the Emperor, what are the major problems of the SPD in the East, in everyday business?

We are simply very few members in the national Association of Thuringia of about 4000. In the age of cut you are 60 to mid-60s. It is a municipal election campaign, since it starts with the posters sticking. For many, the uncertainty is large, to rise on a ladder. Because we have to assign an external service provider, which costs money. And the people to build an increasing distance.

What do you do about it?

I recently tried out a new Format: politics and Pizza, we have distributed flyers and then in my office in Gera, organized. As around 15 young people came. The office we've renamed the "Emperor's Democracy".

Try to hide the SPD and to put on your Person?

Elisabeth Kaiser, has been sitting for 2017, as a representative of Thuringia in the German Bundestag. At the age of 32, she is one of the youngest and one of the...photo: picture alliance / Bodo Schackow

Well, at the showcase of the SPD Logo is still there. But we need to open more distance break down. So I present to my office for an Initiative, the power of a refugee newspaper. Or in Altenburg on the spring market, we have made Popcorn. There are a lot of small steps.

In the SPD, some say Yes, the party should procure buses for Citizens to come to the people there, where there is no local branch anymore, it would be in your opinion an idea?

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Hans Month Paul Starzmann

I don't know if party buses solve the problem. But clearly, it needs more carers. This is a question of resources. But the citizens also have a duty to collect. I can't knock on every door and ask what's missing. I hear too often "The state must ..." – accompanied by prejudices and accusations.