Focus, the German news magazine, put up a piece this morning....chatting over the top political figure of the German Green Party.....Robert Habeck.
If you haven't noticed over the past month, Habeck has been in the news a good bit by commentary and reactions to things, via his accounts on Twitter and Facebook. He's taken some serious heat for short blunt comments that he has made.
So this morning, as Focus reports...Habeck has apparently 'quit' his Twitter/Facebook accounts. His blog? That continues on.
I've suggested it in my essays that as the 2021 German national election approaches, I think that it's mostly an election between someone in the CDU Party (Merkel won't run again) and Habeck of the Green Party. I actually think that Habeck has a fair chance of bringing the Green Party up....maybe up to around 25-to-30 percent of the national vote.
This dumping of the Facebook and Twitter commentary? I question the wisdom of this, and the timing. There is the EU election coming up in May, and later this fall....three German state elections. A fair number of Green supporters look for commentary by Habeck. Maybe his objective is to have just filtered commentary by the national Green Party Facebook and Twitter accounts. Commentary by 'committee-vote'? Well.....it decreases risk, and ensures that the individual message doesn't conflict with the national message.
So I wouldn't suggest you will see less of Habeck on social media....just that it'll be 'approved' commentary when it does appear.
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