Klaus Wowereit is offended. Increasingly irritated, he responded to criticism in Berlin. He has discovered the federal policy and sees his coalition with the Left Party as a model
The heavy Audi A8, which was on Friday morning before the Red Town Hall, stepped a mayor who was really upset. Klaus Wowereit, who never put on the waiting press in his office, but the newspapers on the way there was even read, by 11 clock with the "Welt am Sonntag" appointment in his office. At 9 25 clock said a spokesman from the appointment. The governors had in the morning on a text in the "Berliner Morgenpost" annoyed that appears in the same publisher as this newspaper. Under these circumstances he had "no desire" on the agreed discussion on Red Red in state and federal governments.
Wowereit just got a bad press in the city, "Wowereit pouts" the headline of the "taz", "Poor Regiermeister" commented the newspaper Tagesspiegel. Trigger its decision, the grounds of the just concluded Tempelhof Airport was awarded to ten years to use part of a fashion show. The cause lies deeper, however: The mayor, who ruled the city for eight years in coalition with the Left Party, has developed to a federal political ambitions and responding local Handel, being fought in Berlin traditionally very fragmented, increasingly annoyed.
The past week provided a good example of the two worlds in which moving Wowereit: The most important politicians of Germany struggled in the Federalism Commission, and Wowereit laid himself at the same time with the chancellor and her SPD finance minister. Long he thinks they represent more than just the interests of Berlin, "Klaus Wowereit was the only one who has spoken on the subject of debt brake, what everyone was thinking," says his planning chief Björn Böhning. By the fact that the SPD hardly prime minister, then it is Wowereit, who for years now called "A" countries coordinates in the Bundesrat.
fears In this role, he now even the Chancellor. She has not forgotten that it was the Berlin Wowereit, who stole it at the Education Summit earlier this year the show and presents them with an invitation from the candidate Barack Obama to the Brandenburg Gate. Wowereit will be in the coming months, the main speaker at rallies and in the Ruhr region in southern Germany. Willy-Brandt-Haus in the dates as part of the SPD campaign for "The new century" will be performed in the Red City Hall are named "The Great Wowi Tour. The idea of party leader Franz Muentefering, the SPD's election campaign, especially as a moderate force and a corrective to the supposedly radical market CDU to advertise, you hold in Wowereit environment for too defensive. His chief planner Böhning said: "The comrades want on the street the feeling that it goes against the other - the class war feeling." As a model for successful elections here with the idea of "social modernism" won near-victory against Andrea Ypsilanti, Roland Koch, a year ago. "The idea is to find a term that summarizes the new," says Böhning ". There can not you come back with the social market economy" The red-red coalition, which Wowereit in the first years of his administration sold as a necessary evil, is now to be brought to the medium model: "Here in Berlin's red red almost to normal," Böhning says.
The SPD Chancellor Candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier fit neither rhetoric nor Boehning Wowereit's ambitions. Long state of war between the State Department and the Red City Hall: The Vice Chancellor signed the petition demonstratively "Pro religion" that wants to force that is introduced in the capital of religious instruction as an elective. Steinmeier's signature, which was made without notice, is not a kick in the shins, but had a kick below the belt, said in Berlin. Wowereit's visit to the sixtieth birthday of Kurt Beck on Thursday was by no means, as claimed, based on personal ties. Wowereit - the pool or as party chairman excluded from the inner leadership - now looking for proximity to the Palatinate, who was ousted by Steinmeier and Müntefering. The enemy of my enemy is my friend - this was the actual birthday greeting.
acts Wowereit in Berlin, meanwhile, like a professional football player who has kicked on Saturday in the Bundesliga, but on Sunday still compete pissed off once in the county league needs. The explanation of the city policy, he leaves his only real confidant Michael Mueller, who leads him to party and faction. Wowereit considers himself indispensable in Berlin. And he's right: the capital-CDU is so desolate that make themselves Social Democrats worry: "Because at the moment no political gives you power in the city, which gives us the content and organization stand up, we are as SPD often too safe, "says the vice-chairman Fritz Felgate, who coordinates the SPD rights in Parliament. The politician from the problem Neukölln district wants there a greater commitment of leaders: "In the debate over integration is Wowereit of us annoyed Neukölln. He considers the situation on the whole normal and says it needs no special additional effort. We see it differently. "
The problem neighborhoods are located in the inner city and in fact, the atmosphere there, especially among the urban, young professionals who Wowereit for its core audience keeps getting worse: young teachers leave Berlin, because they are elsewhere, civil servants who earn more and teach students to more peaceful. Wowereit reminded of the requirement of a nationwide cap on salaries. In the inner city parents fight and private education authorities in many places a war of position with the authorities. Wowereit said he had children, he would not send them to school in Kreuzberg. The unending unending series of arson attacks on expensive cars in the inner city does not seem Wowereit nor his interior minister to make serious concerns.
When Heinz Buschkowsky, the SPD district mayor of Neukölln, new ideas for wanted to discuss the Problemquatiere, it did not even listen to the first group. Another outsider in the Berlin-SPD did to gain always heard: Thilo Sarrazin, Wowereit's finance minister, who now stands before the change to the federal bench, insulted teachers, administrators and Hartz IV recipients, because he does not resign with the Versorungsmentatlität the city wanted to , in sharp words. The Berlin to be stubborn, he calmed terrified comrades often, but not offended easily.
Source: WELT ONLINE - 7 Feb. 2009
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