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“Everything has its time. Now it’s over.”
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“Today I’m always the senior, no matter where I go”: Prime Minister Volker Bouffier.
(Photo: IMAGO/Political Moments)
In just a few days, Volker Bouffier will no longer be Prime Minister of Hesse. He quits voluntarily. Looking back, he talks about Laschet’s candidacy for chancellor, the assassination in Hanau – and the murder of Walter Lübcke, who was his friend.
Interviewed by
Detlef Esslinger and Gianna Niewel, Wiesbaden
Monday afternoon, his presumably last week as prime minister has begun. Volker Bouffier enters the Brothers Grimm Hall of the Hessian State Chancellery in Wiesbaden, takes a seat in the red armchair, with the busts of the two poets behind him to the left and right. He will leave office next Tuesday. At least that’s the plan.
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