After her New Year’s Eve video, Christine Lambrecht stands where many politicians stood before her: under a lot of pressure. The Scharping to Scheuer cases reveal what is most important to them now.
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Now also Friedrich Merz and Markus Söder. In a concerted action, the chairmen of the CDU and CSU have called for the replacement of Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD), who has been heavily counted. Merz and Söder do not want to miss the opportunity to drive Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ruling SPD in the New Year’s Eve affair. That’s her job as the leader of the opposition in the federal government or as a campaigner in Bavaria. So far, Scholz has bravely stood by Lambrecht. On Wednesday, government spokesman Wolfgang Büchner answered the question of whether the minister enjoyed the chancellor’s unqualified trust: “Yes.”