SPD crash: “These will be tough years for us”

The SPD may want to govern again – and at the same time renew itself without replacing its top personnel. The party leader seems to be aware of how difficult this will be.

The new era is already evident in the fact that there are hardly any questions for the Chancellor anymore. Instead, the appearance of SPD chairmen Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken with Olaf Scholz on Monday in the Willy Brandt House was largely about how things should proceed. Lars Klingbeil is trying to be dignified; he says that Olaf Scholz's time in office will soon be viewed differently. He made many of the right decisions in difficult times, starting with the special fund for the German armed forces amounting to 100 billion euros.