Sunday, November 23, 2008

"Lafontaine is no longer prime minister»

Saarland, the former SPD leader Lafontaine as a link-party candidate to head. The Telegraph spoke with SPD chief Maas landing on sympathy values, possible coalitions and Lafontaines strategy.

The CDU is governed Saarland 2009 in August 2009 elected. The SPD wants the landslide losses of the election of 2004 by more than 13 percentage points and catch up again before landing the Left Party. Polls see the Left but almost par with the SPD. Added to this: With the former SPD leader and federal finance minister Lafontaine attracts a former regional party Matador as a link-top candidate in the state.Telegraph: Mr. Maas, in the coming year are you in the state Prime Minister Peter Müller challenge. On the question of who should lead the Saarland, lie in polls, however, in third position, far behind Lafontaine. What excites the Saar countries so Linspartei the boss?

Heiko Maas: Lafontaine was mayor, he was prime minister. There is a degree of popularity, nothing extraordinary. His poll figures are far behind those of past years. Many countries Saarland have not forgiven him, that he had made in 1999 by Acker. He would have the Saarland in its difficult financial position as federal finance minister can greatly help, but he did not.

Telegraph: According to current survey values the CDU can not continue to govern alone, even for a coalition with the FDP is not enough. We experience after the Saarland election a grand coalition? Under Lafontaine you do not want mitregieren.

The SPD disaster

The Berlin party leadership wrote Oskar Lafontaine significant complicity in the miserable state to earnings from 2004. Because the former Prime Minister of Saarland SPD had unexpectedly in 1999 from all offices and entered into force henceforth as a critic of the red-green government on course. After 2005 he engaged in the reformist critical WASG, in 2007 with the East-PDS party to link together closed. Now he joins the political home against the SPD to.

Maas: This is a mere mirage. Lafontaine will never Prime Minister, because we do not select him first, and secondly, the SPD anyway before the Left Party lands - and thus in the case of cases, the SPD is the Prime Minister. And then says Maas.

At a grand coalition: I am not in the tenure of Prime Minister Peter Müller to extend, but to make it to an end. We want the State Chancellery. Currently, a left-wing coalition under the leadership of the SPD in the polls, a majority - even in the polls, the CDU has published.

Telegraph: What Lafontaine wants to achieve, if he can not be prime minister?

Maas: Lafontaine blufft if he is sold as a future prime minister. He is in Saarland only the flagship of the Left Party. Immediately after the election he will the country turn back and go back to Berlin. Lafontaine wants only the voices of the people, but not solve their problems. That is dishonest.

The people must decide 2009: With Lafontaine spent a politics of yesterday, with a miller failed policies of yesterday or with the SPD and me a forward-looking policy today for tomorrow.


Müller and Lafontaine are like the two Grandpa's in the Muppetshow who constantly bicker and do not even notice what pieces on the stage running. The people are of this type simply tired of politicians. Who wants the change, you must choose the SPD.

Heiko Maas is national chairman of the Saar SPD. With him Tilman said Steffen

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