In recent weeks, the traffic light coalition has often been criticized for its policies. Chancellor Olaf Scholz was also regularly criticized for his leadership style. At the Chancellor’s meeting in Mannheim, the SPD politician met a pensioner who packaged his criticism in a charming way, but didn’t say anything good about Scholz.
“How can we trust you not to be so forgetful?”
The citizen stated that he wanted to address two different areas. The first was the Cum-Ex scandal. “I’m worried that you’re very forgetful,” said the man. The audience around him laughed. The citizen continued: “It is commented abroad that we have a chancellor of forgetfulness. And that really worries me. How can we trust that you aren’t so forgetful after all? Don’t you think that if you throw this burden away and create clarity, it will help Germany and your party?”
Scholz probably didn’t know what to do. Instead of giving the man an answer, he appeared speechless for a moment and ignored the accusations with a curt “second question”.
Pensioner criticizes Habeck and Baerbock
But the pensioner’s second point will not have pleased the Chancellor either, because it was about his ministers. “It’s not just the comedians who say that Germany has the stupidest government in the world,” the man opened his other contribution to the conversation. “I don’t think it’s the stupidest government, but you have so many members of your cabinet who can’t do anything.”
Robert Habeck doesn’t know what bankruptcy means. He accuses Annalena Baerbock of various rhetorical blunders. “Can’t you throw them out or give them tutoring?” the pensioner wanted to know from Scholz.
At least Scholz addressed this point. “I think the minister you mentioned are doing a good job and are making a lot of effort to help keep the world together,” said the Chancellor. He also praised Habeck’s anti-Semitism video.