Not everything that Berlin’s governing mayor Franziska Giffey says about Bettina Jarasch is nice. But after all, the vice wants her job. Close-ups from the election campaign.
This is enemy territory for both of them. It might connect, but it doesn’t. Everyone fights for themselves.
A Monday evening in January, a windowless hall in West Berlin, around 300 middle-aged people, business people in suits, are in the audience. A business association has invited the six top candidates for the Berlin House of Representatives elections. As soon as he greets the club, he makes it clear that he considers the city government to be incompetent. This primarily means two women on the podium, Franziska Giffey, the Governing Mayor, and Bettina Jarasch, her deputy.