SPD Chancellor candidate: Scholz sees a possible Alliance with the left party skeptical

SPD Chancellor candidate, Olaf Scholz, has not ruled out an Alliance with his party after the election to the Bundestag with the Left, in principle, it looks rather skeptical. “I think there’s still a lot of questions,” said the Vice-Chancellor on Wednesday evening in the ARD-show “Maischberger – The week” on the question of whether he thought the Left for government. He added: “there will be to discuss and certainly a lot, I wish good performance.”

For the past seven years, the SPD had said with a view to the Left: “It depends on the other.” The Finance Minister added: “anyone Who wants to govern, must also be a government capable of”. Since all the had to do a lot up to the election. “We want the next government is led by a social Democrats.”

With Minister of Finance Scholz, the SPD and a candidate for Chancellor, hitherto regarded as a representative of the conservative party wing. The two SPD leaders, Saskia esque and Norbert Walter-Borjans, are open to a coalition with the left party after the Federal election. The Left is aiming for in the election campaign, a hard social-political debate with the social Democrats.

the management Board and the Presidium of the SPD had nominated Scholz on Monday unanimously as Chancellor candidate for the parliamentary election in 2021. A confirmation on a party Congress is no longer necessary. The Rhineland-Palatinate Minister-President and social Democrat Malu Dreyer looks for the SPD a good chance at Galleria tags choice. “After the members vote for the chair of the disputes have been set in the SPD,” said Dreyer of the German press Agency in Mainz, Germany. “We have a constructive atmosphere and a great unity in the party.” Programmatically have developed the SPD also more and newly established. “That’s been under Andrea Nahles created and will now be continued.”

Scholz to. according to the Walter-Borjans, not Chairman of the party

SPD-Chef Norbert Walter-Borjans, of the castle, meanwhile, Scholz party Chairman “Olaf Scholz, Saskia, Olaf Scholz, to be Chancellor esque and me: – in close collaboration have proven effective with those who are now at the top of the party,” he says of the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. On the question of whether Olaf Scholz, therefore, is not a party chief, he replied: “I can say with certainty.” Scholz said the magazine”Spiegel” about his relationship to esque and Walter-Borjans: “I trust Saskia esque and Norbert Walter-Borjans, without restriction.”