The problems of the SPD : Clear announcements under the Enjoyed

The SPD tries at the start of the year, a new debate culture – and all in Public. With the words, "The opposite is true," attacked Andreas Rimkus, member of the German Bundestag from Düsseldorf, Germany, on Wednesday, in the presence of many journalists to his Comrades, Stephan Weil.

lower Saxony's Prime Minister, just with the strict EU-guidelines for emission levels sharply criticized, and explained: "to Me, with some reluctance, that it sets goals without saying how to achieve them."

Even members Arno Clear and Bernd Westphal threw the member of the VW Supervisory Board, "Black-and-White Thinking" and called on him, and ecological objectives are not against jobs to play, because the SPD-parliamentary group, have already identified ways for a structural change. To propagate the Prime Minister, but, dammit, was the demand of the visibly angry parliamentarian.

The press, public grievances, because for social Democrats a first. Because to have had her for the first time jointly organized the annual kick-off retreat, the country groups of North Rhine-Westphalia and lower Saxony/Bremen, the members of the two strongest of the SPD are countries invited, including journalists.

conversation with Andrea Nahles? Behind closed doors

The two-day open debate on the stabilization of the in the past year, hard-pressed and hard-to-insecure party is almost complete track. The debate by the members with party leader Andrea Nahles was held mostly behind closed doors – at their Express request.

you could not. the members of the total group, which meet on Thursday in Berlin, as it were, a fait accompli, justified Nahles your desire for a "protected space" for the debate

For the social Democrats had begun the year 2019 with a message that many Enjoyed angry or even indignant. As Vice-Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced to the citizens by the "Bild am Sonntag"Interview that he believed the task of the Federal Chancellor. He unleashed a debate that contributes to the content-related profiling of the party, nothing.

dissatisfaction with the leading Duo

Also currently seems unlikely that his party would set up him as a candidate for Chancellor. The dissatisfaction with the leading Duo Nahles and Scholz of the SPD is more large and probably would have to make every Aspirant an election by direct vote.

For such a members decision on the candidate at the top of the country groups of North Rhine-Westphalia and lower Saxony/Bremen, in a joint paper. Nahles did not want to set in terms of a primary in front of the press. You get "a skeptical attitude" she said, and insured, their relationship to Scholz have not suffered by the foray, it was "still good".

the Fact that the Situation of the SPD in the year 2019, with Europe, four regional and many local elections is vital-it is critical, in Osnabrück, nobody has ever had a a doubt. "Now we are in the situation where we have one, two shots freely," warned NRW-land-in-chief Sebastian Hartmann.

"real politics for real people"

He called on the party to reflect"". The SPD must "say goodbye to some of the cosmos" and "to make real policy for real people, by solving real-world problems". He cited as examples of state programs for affordable housing and the fight against speculation with land.

the European election for the EU, for Germany, but especially also for the SPD is to the fate of choice, the former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. "If we grease it, then we don't lubricate only there," warned the Ex-party boss: "Then it will be very difficult."

his predecessor, Sigmar Gabriel, mixed with trenchant theses in the debate – in Europe and the Brexit, but also in the Dilemma between Ecology and employment, in the he Because against criticism.

Gabriel warns of the loss of the classic electorate

He could see "almost a perfect storm directed against the SPD," warned the Ex-environmental, economic, and foreign Minister: "The people run away from us in droves in the classic electorate, because they have the impression that we leave after the Hartz IV debate for the second Time."

The SPD underestimated completely, what is the emotional involvement triggered openness apodictic announcements on climate protection in the Deal with in the brown coal industry or in the automotive industry. "The impression is, here is the next green party comes in, we put them on the wrong side of history." Instead, the social Democrats should acknowledge the work performance of the people in these industries.

The hart attacked Because praised the debate: "I think that's a very interesting discussion, which was really fun for me." The social democratic task is to take under the headings of security and cohesion "of the people, the fear of change.

Before Nahles was behind closed doors the debate, she practiced self-criticism. The SPD had a policy from the "perspective of the industrious and working people", but it failed her in the past year, this "basic melody, for which we see, always deliver".

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