Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz is on holiday in the Allgäu this summer, after all he comes a little bit from there, somehow. A perfidious answer to Söder’s allegations that the traffic light north is disadvantageous to the south?
the picture knew it first again. “We’re going on vacation in the Allgäu for two weeks,” whispered Chancellor’s wife Britta Ernst to the newspaper. That means, knows the very north German picture, not just “mountains, pretzels and mountain huts”. No, it’s something of a sensation: “After 40 years, Germany once again has a chancellor who spends the long holidays in his native Germany!”
The attentive observers of the Federal Republic’s politics remember that the predecessors in office trustlessly jetted around the world: Merkel to South Tyrol, Schröder to Italy, Kohl to Lake Wolfgang. Olaf Scholz is now staying in the country, even if – as the G-7 summit has just shown again – mountains, pretzels and mountain huts are just as unsuitable for home from a North German perspective as traditional jackets.
Such defamation is of course a gift for Prime Minister Markus Söder. The PR strategist in him hasn’t tired of talking about the “traffic light north” and the systematic red-green-yellow disadvantage of the “free south” for quite some time.
So it suits Scholz that he comes from the Allgäu, a bit. His father worked in Immenstadt for ten years as sales director for a pantyhose factory – even though the son was already grown up at the time. The much smaller PR strategist in Scholz is now perfidiously hitting back.
The first chancellor to go on vacation at home
The message to Bavaria is clear: Whoever is the first chancellor to plan a home leave in his fatherland after 40 years and chooses the Allgäu of all places, cannot be completely indifferent to the fate of the residents of the Free State. Especially since Scholz, who is actually very Hanseatic, wanted to relax last year as Vice Chancellor in the Allgäu. At that time, the flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate intervened.
In the Allgäu they are now puzzling over where exactly the chancellor is headed. To Oberstaufen, where Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock explored the Free State in winter? Or again in Nesselwang, like last year.
The local media know that the research is rocky: the Federal Press Office does not answer, the market community knows nothing. The police inspection in Füssen gives no answer. the picture at least suggests a trip to Neuschwanstein, always worth it. A glossy photo in front of Bavaria’s top tourist address is not Scholz’ thing. That’s Söder’s style after all.