Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The SPD Choice: Pistorius Over Scholz?

 The odds that the German SPD Party will meet....discuss options, and vote to have Pistorius as the candidate?  I'd now give the odds.....100-percent chance.  No one is eager to enter the election, and run Scholz as the candidate.

On how it changes numbers?  The SPD presently...is sitting at 16-percent (3rd place)....behind the CDU at 33-percent and AfD at 18-percent. The Greens are at 11-percent.  BSW?  At 6-percent.  The rest? All beneath 5-percent...so they don't 'rank'.

With Pistorius....I'd give a five-to-six point rise...mostly taking a point or two from  both BSW and Greens.  This worrying the BSW?  If they fall beneath 5-percent....they get zero seats.  So yeah, I'd  be worried.  I'd also be worried at the Green position....if they fell to  8-percent.

This creating a coalition.....CDU/CSU and SPD?  I'd say that with confidence, and that Pistorius is given vice-Chancellor, and probably the Finance Minister job.  

All of this....changing public perception and staging 2025 as a recovery year?  Yes.  And add to it....the Ukraine is likely to end in some fashion....with Russian natural gas turned back on by the end of 2025.

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