Does Boris Pistorius want to be the head of the SPD? He doesn't say exactly
Quick Look
- Boris Pistorius says that he spoke intensively about his action on Bebelplatz at the SPD executive committee meeting and emphasized that it was carried out out of an inner attitude, without any political ambitions.
- He also criticizes the CDU attacks on Manuela Schwesig as inhumane and ruthless.
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Why It Matters
Pistorius carried out a high-profile action on Bebelplatz in Berlin last week, which attracted public and party attention. Schwesig had previously criticized the CDU's attacks on her after Bas resigned.
He was at the meeting of the SPD presidium and there were intensive discussions, he told journalists in Berlin when asked whether he could also be counted on at the top of the SPD in view of his high-profile action on Berlin's Bebelplatz last week.
Pistorius added: "Some people in public or in the party may not be able to imagine it, but you can do something like last Tuesday on August-Bebel-Platz simply out of an inner attitude, out of a deep impulse, without attaching any ambitions or demands to it. I think that says it all.”
On the question of whether he shared the perception of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig, who had sharply criticized the Union's behavior after Bas's resignation, he said: "If you know that someone is temporarily withdrawing from such a tragic, sad occasion so that you don't launch additional public attacks on a minister in the coalition government, I think there can be no two opinions on that." Schwesig had written on X: "The CDU's attacks - despite her personal difficult situation - were inhumane and ruthless."
Open Questions
- What specific action did Pistorius carry out on Bebelplatz?
- How did the SPD executive committee react to his statement?
- What further consequences could the CDU attacks on Schwesig have?
