SPD has never been so popular in the history of the Federal Republic. And the chairman of Social -Democratic Party has never been sent to a position with less support without a candidate. Even never very popular Sigmar Gabriel received nine percentage points in 2015.
“We are starting our return today,” more than 600 delegates tried to motivate at the beginning of the party congress. Anyone who has been the interim general secretary since May was officially elected on Friday night. The result was not yet available during the departure of pressing.
BAS and KLINGBALE are now experiencing a difficult job to change the trend. How, earlier they are set out in their applied speeches.
Bärbel Bas, a new party leader, trying not to generate passion, but to create a specific political person. Like a woman. Saskia Esken is coming, the bass comes. Not a simple place. The bass did everything possible. Women, according to her, “in politics are exposed to all this sexist garbage in politics.” Therefore, she had long thought about whether she wanted to run.
The bass did not shout, how it was Usus at party conferences, she simply made it clear. Two bosses, who are still at the SPD, Escen and Andrea Nahls, said BES, “with mixed feelings removed from this position. Formulated carefully. ” And: “Working with them was not the main point.” The verdict almost rose at Ura. The bass pressed what many felt in the hall. The party showed too little solidarity when dealing with Escen, Bas said. Thus, SPD cannot reliably represent solidarity.
Clear ads about the heart and soul
Thus, the Minister of Labor performed the mood after defeat in the elections and routine. She did not provide a sparkling analysis, he is aimed at selflessness, in particular, moderate, without phrases.
She warmed the hearts of her comrades with clear ads. Anyone who leaves laziness workers or collects basic security controls the “class struggle from above”. No names. But this should mean an alliance. Comrade is a simple text.
But, of course, the BAS is also a real politician. The Minister of Labor praised the minimum wage commission in the highest colors, which decided 14.60 euros from 2027. This is “the largest socially defined increase in wages since the introduction of the minimum wage” and “SPD -History of Success”. No subordinate paragraph that SPD promised 15 euros in the election campaign and in the coalition, for several weeks, that black and red decided 15 euros in minimal wages in 2026. The very screet, but within the limits.
The result of the minimum wage commission, which was announced a few hours before the start of the party congress, took many comrades: she loyally nods inside. The agreement on a gradual increase from 12.82 to 13.90 in the next and, finally, 14.60 euros a year after the next one was a “damn strict struggle,” said DGB chairman Yasmin Fakhimi in his greeting.
To the wall
Politicians do not bear responsibility for determination, but a commission of employers: inside and employees: inside. Fakhimi defended the agreement reached there as a “complex compromise”, in which, however, the central goals of the trade unions were achieved. She knew that the expectations of negotiations were sometimes higher, but the positions were “very far from each other.”
Poker and lost. Thus, the evening election evening in the Bundestag felt like this for clingbeal. “We ran to the wall.” The party leader had self -criticism, which he made mistakes. And, of course, he is responsible for the results of the election. What errors were definitely vague. Only so many: since 2023 it went economically down. “But when the crisis was there, Social Democracy was not completely.” The signals were noticed too late. Listen, hear.
His decision to take on the chairman of the parliamentary group after the lost federal elections were not easy for him. At that time, he saw only two options: “either I stop or go full responsibility.” He made the last. In the end, it was about creating the ability to act immediately and negotiate at the eye level with Friedrich Mertz.
In the end, Frederick Mertz is an indirect obstetrician for the new double top of SPD. Because when it became clear that Klingbeal began again, the number of candidates narrowed narrowly. Exactly on one. On Barbel Bas, who, as the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, is the only abundance of power to meet clingbele at the eye level.
Cultivated creation
But the speech of Klingbeal also made it clear how difficult the balance between the government office and the chairmanship of the party is. The defendant, whom Social is a democratic promises, namely to develop a better life thanks to zeal and efforts, is under pressure that there are hardly accessible living space in cities. At some point, you turned wrong. Did SPD have not agreed since 2013 and not only provided the chancellor and the Minister of Labor in the past by the legislative body, but also the Minister of Construction?
It sounded equally empty when the party leader scolded that it was a “grotesque”, as in this country, about migration, it depended on immigration. He did not mention that SPD in Bundestag stopped the reunification of the family only for subsidiaries a few hours earlier and, thus, blocked legal immigration.
Voting left traces. You have never seen so many SPD deputies, the delegate said. “And sometimes I wonder what we really do.” Another acquaintance: “She has a little abdominal pain to have two minister as a party leader.”
A cultivated creation occurred in the debates, the results of the bad elections were complained by the Mutmakhappellen. YUSO was critical, state politicians pragmatically emphasized the importance of specific improvements. Everything is as always.
The boss Juso Philip Turmer felt the height of the fall between the routine and the rhetoric and tried to shake inside. “Normality is our enemy,” said the boss Juso almost theatrical. With a continuation, the deepest crisis of SPD was not repaired for 162 years. The task of saving the party is greater than any ministerial office. SPD was supposed to dare “The distribution problem is so loud that no one can ignore it.”
Hubertus Hale was ranging from clingbeal as the Minister of Labor and no longer worked as a leader. In some farewell speech, Hale praised that the SPD did not break after the defeat. The new fundamental program, Hale warned, will only succeed if the party opens. And he criticized: “We are too boring.” Amazing applause.
“Crazy update”
The manifesto of outstanding politicians of the SPPD, such as Rolf Musucench and Ralph Steggner, who demanded that they turn to Russia more likely to be quite controversial. Myucench did not even come to the party congress, which also met with criticism. The delegate found this “disrespectful.”
But Stugner spoke. “Excitement shows that debate should be carried out,” said a foreign politician. “We must talk about whether this is crazy updating correctly.” Germany will be absent as a result of increased defense costs in other areas. But: SPD was supposed to become a world party again. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius answered less than ten minutes. “This imperialist in the Kremlin does not want to negotiate, he does not want peace,” he said. “I do not need to interpret anything, I just have to accept the facts.” He also wanted peace, Pistorius said. “But not the world at all costs, but the world in freedom.”
The old, the new party leader Klangbele previously explained: “To be a peacekeeping party in 2025 means something else than in the 1980s.” Putin is not Gorbachev. So, you must do everything today to protect yourself from Putin’s Russia. Thus, this remains with the decision of the party of 2023: organize safety before Russia. SPD remains at this point: constantly.
