The trained banking economist definitely has one thing with him: the instinct for how to irritate the coalition partner to the maximum without leading to a major controversy. For example, with the announcement that if Kretschmann leaves office in the state parliament before the end of the legislative period, a green successor will not be helped to gain a majority. The Prime Minister made it clear publicly that Hagel had overstepped his bounds, but on the other hand he scored points, even beyond his own fan club in the CDU.
Hagel doesn’t just have to win over the skeptics, especially in the Baden part of the country (“How does he want to get along in Mannheim with this broad Swabian?”). After all, the parliamentary group and future state leader has first access to the top candidate for the state election in a good two and a half years. If he were to be denied that, his new power and strength would immediately be over. And if he himself were hesitant, even more so. Quick praise can easily become a burden. “Manuel Hagel is the right top candidate,” said Moritz Oppelt, the Bundestag member and CDU district leader in North Baden, after the decisive committee deliberations on Monday.
However, others point out, Hagel has never led a ministry. Even the Junge Union reacts strangely cautiously and initially only “hopes” that the 35-year-old will reach for the office of state chairman. Even within the group, some people waver between recognition and suspicion. For Hagel, a long-serving CDU expert sees the image of the tightrope walker high above Manhattan, who has to hope that the long, heavy pole in his hands does what it should: keep the balance, compensate for insecurities. But he still has to work on the content, namely on the question of what Hagel – not exactly an enemy of empty phrases and phrases – actually stands for. He lacks experience and “an idea of his own politics,” writes the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” simply about his time in the CDU after Strobl.
Strobl still has to reconcile a few camps
To make matters worse, it hasn’t even started yet. Kretschmann leaves no doubt that the Interior Minister remains the coordinator of government policy on the black side and his most important contact. The deputy himself announces that he will “step aside”, but that he wants to remain in the team as a cabinet member and have a say. The current state chairman states “stability instead of strife” as “goal number one”. If he is serious about this, he would have to take on a completely different project in the remaining time.
2023-09-26 22:02:35
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