Rater than tell the 12-page summary, I'll to tell this in 30 lines.
Habeck is the Green Party individual who is the vice-Chancellor and Economics Minister of Germany (since the election in the fall of 2021).
Habeck early on (December 2021) went out and hired a guy by the name of Patrick Graichen. What we can say, for a fact, prior to December 2021.....Graichen had been the boss/director of a environmentalist think-tank/lobbyist group...for around 7 years. Looking at his background....he's probably very qualified for the work required.
The position hired for? Well...civil servant status....State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection.
No one would really say much for the hiring....except this one odd item.....Graichen was the 'best-man' for a top-level Green Party guy (Michael Kellner).
The suggestion here (whether true or half-true or false) is that the status as best-man played some role in getting the 'big' job within the Ministry. I would imagine if Graichen had known where things were going....he would have declined the 'best-man' appointment at the wedding.
Did Habeck know about the best-man business before picking the guy? Most of what you see is 'no'.....but it's a tight circle with these Green Party guys, and there's probably over 300 of the top level of the Green Party that knew Graichen in some fashion but the vast majority probably didn't know of the wedding/best-man thing.
A four-star scandal? Well....I'd rank it two-star mostly. It's not that Graichen is some cousin of Habeck, or is a complete idiot. It's just that this guy served as a 'best-man' at some guy's wedding and in the selection process....he just left some things out.
This hurting the Green Party in regional/state elections? OH....well.....yeah, this probably takes 3 or 4 points off the Green Party level....giving them back to the SPD folks. I won't argue that point.
To be honest, after a dozen years of Merkel-management and marginal chaos/scandal.....this is pretty much all they can generate at present.
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