I've essayed over the past two months about the 'search' for the new leader for the SPD Party (the left-of-center group). Presently, the candidate application period is open, but only a couple have applied. Most journalists will say that the 'real' candidates are going to wait until the final week to declare themselves for the job of leading the party.
A curious note....Micheal Roth....is one of the few declared for potential vote. Yesterday, I was reading through commentary on the guy, and he'd noted one thing he wanted the party to stand up and go for....to dump the German passport, and have a EU passport instead.
There is an element of play going on.....where various groups (for differing reasons) want to dump national identity and instead have the EU-face over most all processes. Selling the EU-passport idea to Germans? I doubt if you could find more than 10-percent of Germans who agree with this idea. Even in the SPD Party itself....it might be fairly difficult.
The thing about this leadership search....the Party really needs some radical new approach and fresh face. Over the past three years, the SPD has probably lost around half of their enthusiastic voters, and dwells at 12-to-14 percent in national polling. With the three state elections slated for this fall....there's nothing good coming out of the polls for the SPD.
Maybe the selling point of the Party should be some pro-EU massive public appeal and attract only the pro-EU crowd as voters.
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