The SPD leadership could have foreseen the fiasco in the election of Kai Wegner as governing mayor, the grumbling in the party was too loud. This is what happens when two people really want to rule. In any case, Berlin has once again suffered the damage.
What happened in Berlin this Thursday is a fiasco – not only for the Christian Democrat Kai Wegner, even if he prevailed in the end. Of course, he was the focus of this election thriller, as the first promising CDU candidate for the office of governing mayor in the German capital – after more than two decades in which Social Democrats led the city. Wegner had to endure what hardly anyone expected in this intensity. It was to be expected that on that day he would not receive all the votes in the black-red coalition that had already been formed, if only because the SPD’s vote for this alliance had previously been so narrow.