The Chancellor is at the bottom of the polls and the SPD is waiting for his plan to solve the budget crisis. Scholz doesn’t reveal any details, but sends some clear messages to the FDP’s austerity commissioners.
In the end, Olaf Scholz even linked arms: he, who is not usually prone to physical gestures, put his arm around the SPD chairmen Saskia Esken and Lars Klingbeil. The Chancellor is enjoying a rare moment of affection after his poll numbers outside the country are worse than ever. About Scholz’s party conference speech, Esken says: “It touched our hearts. Everyone in the room could feel that you are at home here.”