Alexander
Gauland
Social
Democratic Party
AfD
Kompakt, August 12, 2020
[Alexander Gauland
is honorary national chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and is a
chairman of the AfD delegation in the German Bundestag. Olaf Scholz (SPD) is
currently German Finance Minister.]
The
SPD leadership has instinctively hit upon the correct decision: If the SPD is at
all to still have a chance of presenting a chancellor at the Bundestag election
in the coming year, then it is only with Olaf Scholz. For all political
distinctions, Scholz is one of the last SPD politicians who evinces an assured
measure of realism and trustworthiness – characteristics which are
unconditionally required for the office of Federal Chancellor. Yet I doubt that
it will get that far. Since Scholz no longer fits today’s SPD, which is more
and more being defined by functionaries for whom it is not primarily about
practical politics but about the conversion to projects of leftist ideology.
Olaf Scholz is the right candidate for the wrong party.
Not
by chance directly before the nomination of Scholz, both SPD chairmen, Esken
and Walter-Borjans, spoke out for a coalition at the federal level with the Greens
and the Linke party. Yet only with great difficulty can I imagine Olaf Scholz
at the head of such a red-red-green leftist government, which would bring
Germany a foreign policy disavowing NATO and a domestic policy of unbridled
immigration. Scholz could thereby fare similarly to Peer Steinbruck in his
unsuccessful candidacy for chancellor in the 2013 Bundestag election. In the
end, Steinbruck saw himself facing an SPD which substantively had long since
distanced itself from him and which ultimately no longer wanted to follow him.
[trans: tem]
