Sunday, February 07, 2021
Board meeting of the SPD
Scholz: Only we have a fixed plan
At its board meeting, the SPD resolves four "future missions". These goals could only be implemented through "leadership", through "a concentrated, joint effort," says Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz.
In a programmatic speech on the sidelines of the annual retreat of the SPD executive committee, Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz confirmed his party's claim to the Federal Chancellery. The finance minister and vice chancellor said that the twenties were the decisive decade in which the course for the future would be set. It depends on "who governs how".
The SPD wants to go into the election campaign with four "future missions". It wants to make the economy climate-neutral by 2050, expand public transport and ensure modern mobility, promote digitization and organize good, modern healthcare. Among other things, Germany is to become "the pharmacy of the world" again.
"From my point of view, it is about leadership," said Scholz about the future plans of the SPD, "the point is that this is not discussed between departments, that not everyone is doing something in general, but that there is a concentrated, joint effort which the whole cabinet is marching in the same direction, and in which our country is, to a certain extent, taking the same direction. "
SPD party leader Norbert Walter-Borjans said it had to become clear in the upcoming state elections in March: "Social democracy is not only the stabilizer for what others do or what others want to gain their fame for, but it is the force that does it Country must lead. " His co-party leader Saskia Esken added that the SPD has the best concepts, "and in Olaf Scholz we have the best man to implement these concepts at the head of a progressive government". Esken and Walter-Borjans competed against Scholz in the internal party election campaign for the SPD chairmanship in 2019.
Germany will only implement the "future missions" outlined by him "if it has the right government," said Scholz. "Because the others who are involved in the political discussion there do not have a firm plan to take it in hand and take the lead in the country on this issue."
In "Guiding principles for the government program" for the board meeting, the SPD also wrote that the Corona crisis had shown how important the work of those "whose income is just enough to live on" was. It is time to "give these people and their work the recognition they deserve". The federal election will take place on September 26th. The state parliaments of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate will be elected on March 14th.
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