A NEW ERA FOR GERMANY
On 26 September, Germany elected a new Bundestag. Even if we do not know which federal government will govern in the future, one thing is clear: the era of Angela Merkel is over and a new one is beginning.
With Kevin Kühnert we want to discuss the result of the federal elections, the remarkable rise of the SPD and Olaf Scholz in the polls in the election campaign finish and his victory on election night, as well as the lessons of an election campaign that was conducted by the SPD, for example, with unprecedented professionalism and unity.
Kevin Kühnert, as deputy federal chairman of the SPD and an eloquent representative of the left wing of the party, is one of the best people you can find to answer this question. Over the past year and a half in particular, it is thanks to him and the cohesion of the SPD's leading politicians that the Social Democrats have consistently pulled together.
With Kevin Kühnert, we take a look into the back rooms of Berlin's domestic politics - just a few days after the historic election that brought the Merkel era to an end.
Kevin Kühnert, 32, is Deputy Chairman of the SPD | District Councillor of the SPD in Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg. From November 2017 to January 2021, he was the national chairman of JUSOS.
Robert Misik, Author and journalist