The party should fight – and all the signs suggest that they will continue to do so violently. On the one-day Executive Board meeting of the SPD on Friday in Berlin to come according to the will of party leader Andrea Nahles, the contradictions of the social Democrats behind closed doors on the table and thoroughly debated. Unresolved conflicts in matters of principle, she is convinced that it is difficult to make the social democracy, the life and contribute to the profile of homelessness, which is a reason for the crash in the polls.
especially when the topic of Hartz IV are likely to collide with different positions to each other. Nahles earned while thunderous Applause when she announced at the beginning of November at “debate camp” for a complete reconstruction of the welfare state and the farewell of Hartz IV. “We need to Reform the System and not only reforms in the System,” she said at the time.
But there is it in the SPD is also widespread skepticism, if the train of Nahles justified in terms of content, and is tactically adept. Because the party leader has raised the future of Hartz IV, the de facto main theme of the substantive renewal of the SPD – and thus their own fate linked to it.
first of All, the left party is applauding wings, because he sees the chair at last on the course swinging. Other social Democrats to try and slow down behind the Scenes, the desire for Change of Nahles. A Central Argument is that the promise of a major restructuring of the welfare state undermines the value of necessarily own, quite successful government work. But it is also a thing. “We should not throw the whole System overboard,” warned Federal Minister for family Affairs Franziska Giffey recently in the daily mirror.
Similar to the pragmatic “networkers” in the SPD group. In its position paper for the exam (“The social state as a Partner: precaution, reliable, and fair”), the members of the shoulder-to-shoulder with the Chairman, by listing many of the reform steps and also for the people facing the backup system. Nonetheless, it is striking, however, that in the paper, the term “Hartz IV”, Nahles’ core concern of a parting of Hartz IV and so is omitted. The “networkers” were faithful supporters of schröder’s “Agenda 2010” of the Hartz IV is a part.
Harder Dietmar Woidke was expressed, the Prime Minister and SPD chief in Brandenburg. “We do not have to apologise for our policy of reform. We can go with a straight back and also be proud of our Achievements,” he said to the daily mirror. The reforms on the labour market were “necessary” and “right”. This is evident from economic data and developments on the labour market. “The basic idea – to challenge and to encourage – is and remains properly,” said Woidke. It is also more Sanctions should be: “If someone is not cooperating and unconditionally money want to get, we have to say no.” Some of the sanctions are but “might be too hard and too bureaucratic”. In addition, should it be also possible “to pay, in certain cases, the higher unemployment benefit 1 longer” and to change the credit limit of the property.
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doing so is difficult in the face of such clear announcements that it will be Nahles hard to meet your large promises of Reform, without alienating any significant portion of the party in front of the head.
