Wagenknecht Says Ilse Aigner Is Wrong Choice for German Federal President, Suggests Juli Zeh
Wagenknecht criticizes Ilse Aigner as candidate for German federal president: Wagenknecht criticizes Ilse Aigner as CDU/CSU candidate for German federal president, saying she lacks broad appeal, and names novelist Juli Zeh as a preferred alternative. The Bundestag assembly vote is set for January 30.
Wagenknecht criticizes Ilse Aigner as candidate for German federal president, Digi Mart USA News: BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht said the CSU politician Ilse Aigner is not the right candidate for the office of federal president. Speaking on Monday on the ntv program “Blome & Pfeffer,” Wagenknecht said, “Proposing Aigner is not what we need.”
Wagenknecht said no one has a real objection to the CSU politician, but added that “she also has little that can be put forward for her, other than that she is a woman and that Mr. Söder wanted to get rid of a competitor.” The CDU nominated Aigner, the Bavarian state parliament president, as the Union’s candidate to succeed Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
CSU leader Markus Söder had already proposed the 61-year-old in April.
Aigner is scheduled to be elected by the Federal Convention on January 30. Wagenknecht said Germany needs a president “who has something to say, who has something to contribute, who also reaches the various camps” in a time of deep social division.
She said she would have preferred that the parties look for a candidate from outside the political establishment who enjoys broad social recognition.
As a possible candidate, Wagenknecht named the novelist Juli Zeh, whom she described as a “very upright, very clever woman.” She said publicist Gabriele Krone-Schmalz would also have been suitable. “She would be a voice of reason,” Wagenknecht said, referring to growing confrontation with Russia that could, in the worst case, end in war.
When journalist Jörg Thadeusz criticized Krone-Schmalz as a “Putin propagandist,” Wagenknecht responded: “For you, anyone who advocates peace and diplomacy is a Putin propagandist. Unfortunately, that is currently the debate in Germany.” She said the BSW is not expected to put forward its own proposal.
With its relatively small number of votes, the BSW does not want to “burn” a candidate by sending her into the race without any prospect of success.
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