Starting out as a great hope, the SPD politician is threatened with a debacle on Sunday in Hesse after a suboptimal election campaign. She still wants to remain Interior Minister in Berlin. How loyal will the party be to her?
At the beginning of the story there is hope. With her mix of down-to-earthness and federal political experience, Nancy Faeser has “optimal chances of giving new impetus to Hesse as Prime Minister,” said SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert, for example, when Federal Interior Minister Faeser’s top candidacy for the Hesse state election was determined. The end of the story will only come on election Sunday, but there is already great frustration in the SPD about how it turned out.