Thursday, September 16, 2021
Call for elections from the economy
Scholz gets help from managers
Ten days before the election, more than 50 current and former economic leaders express their support for the SPD chancellor candidate Scholz. Scholz had the “necessary knowledge and leadership skills and would be a Chancellor” who knows what he is doing “.
SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz receives support from the economy. More than 50 current and former managers speak out in a call that became known today, Thursday, for Scholz to become the next Federal Chancellor. On the website auf-den-kanzler-kom-es-an.de it is said that Germany needs a head of government “with the necessary knowledge and leadership to act decisively and courageously” and a chancellor who “knows what he is doing”.
“As Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor, Olaf Scholz has been showing how good governance works since 2018,” say the managers. “We are convinced: He has the substance, the experience and the assertiveness to lead our country wisely with his ideas for Germany’s future over the next four years.”
The signatories of the appeal include ex-Bahn boss Rüdiger Grube, the former TUI boss and current President of the Tourism Association, Michael Frenzel, and the outgoing boss of the capital city airport BER, Engelbert Lütke Daldrup. Some former SPD politicians have also signed, such as the ex-Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Thorsten Albig, and the former Brandenburg Minister of Economics, Albrecht Gerber.
One of the initiators of the appeal, the head of the communications company Johanssen & Kretschmer, Heiko Kretschmer, told t-online.de: “In the last two years, Olaf Scholz has shown leadership and given new orientation for the country.” Scholz has “consistently contributed to the fact that we are again talking about an active industrial policy as the core of the climate change and digitization in Germany”. According to the report, Kretschmer is a member of the SPD.
Scholz himself told t-online that he was pleased “with the broad support from business”. Many people wanted “a Chancellor Scholz”, he was convinced.
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