That someone is not to be envied for his office – that is always said quickly. This is often not true. In end, most people are finally to envy ir offices. Because offices bring brilliance, power and recognition. There are in fact also offices, as you know: Uff, this is going to be hard! The office of Saxon Prime minister is one such thing.
Michael Kretschmer, 42, was elected to this office on Wednesday in Dresden Landtag. And to be CDU head of government of this federal state, this is not for a number of reasons, which persists to too great envy.
Because Kretschmer is faced with tasks that even a highly talented politician like him might cause greater problems. And that's why he looked rar tense when he was asked after election what to expect in coming weeks and months. He sensed burden of responsibility, he answered.
Three problems suggest that it might be quite tricky for Kretschmer. The first is AfD: party in Saxony has become strongest force in Bundestag election. Kretschmer must somehow manage to make part of dissatisfied again to voters of his CDU. He has for this, and this is problem two, but only a year and a half – in summer of 2019, Saxony chooses a new Landtag. The choice in Saxony will be a special challenge. Kretschmers third problem: How does he recover voters from AfD without becoming a populist himself? To say least, Saxony's image is not too good. If Kretschmer does not meet language of angry, he does not arrive in Saxony. If he talks to m too much after mouth, he gets trouble from all over Germany.
The fact that Kretschmer has now managed to bring his election to Landtag fairly smoothly, could at least be a first sign of his being sent to his cause. Saxony's CDU, since Bundestag election, a completely insecure party, he reassured provisionally, by relentlessly also talking about failures of recent years. In election to country chairman last weekend, he was rewarded with a 90 percent result. In turn, he won SPD coalition partner with argument for wanting to establish a new political culture in Free State.
The man who likes to argueBecause Kretschmer dominates an art which in Saxony has had to be sorely missed in recent years: he has a desire for strife and genuine interest in debates, which even worthy political opponents. In this Kretschmer distinguishes itself almost entirely from his predecessor Stanislaw Tillich: Tillich shied from publicly held discussions, he went out of conflict, to Pegida and AfD he never found an access (let alone a position), new rage of Saxony overtaxed him and met him unexpectedly. Ultimately, feeling of powerlessness, but no longer arriving, forced him to resign. The fact that he proposed Kretschmer as a successor was also because he dared him to do better.
Kretschmer is in fact different from Tillich: he belongs to generation of young German politicians who were politicized from departure to 1990 – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern SPD minister-President Manuela Schwesig, who reports similar things, for example, is Only a year older than him. As general secretary of Saxon CDU, Kretschmer has been learning well-tended political brawl since 2005, as a member of Bundestag for Görlitz, he networked throughout Germany in Union and beyond.
Quite a few compare Kretschmer with Finance Secretary Jens Spahn (CDU). The two have not only in common that y have moved 2002 into Bundestag and appreciate each or personally. But also that y are able to make a similar political point and bring rhetorical talent.
Date Of Update: 14 December 2017, 12:02
