"You have to blame yourself," shouts a listener when Scholz criticizes Merz

WELT "You have to blame yourself," shouts a listener when Scholz criticizes Merz Thomas Schmoll • 2 days • 5 minutes reading time The SPD has recently had a difficult time in Leipzig, and in East Germany as a whole. At an election campaign event there, Chancellor Olaf Scholz gets into a fight with a heckler - until the man eventually gives up and leaves the room. Chancellor Scholz in Leipzig - "Why should we believe him in the future?" One of the most recent election ads that Olaf Scholz's PR team has published on social media confirms various critical judgments that are currently circulating about the political skills of the SPD and its Chancellor: strategically ill-conceived, helpless, empty of content, aloof, unrealistic and far removed from the traditional social democratic clientele. The film does not highlight the SPD's content offering, but compares Scholz and his competitor for the top job in the Chancellery, Friedrich Merz (CDU). Neither of them can be seen, nor are they mentioned by name. All that is shown is an empty chair from the Vitra brand, model "EA 119", the original of which is offered for between around 3,300 and just under 5,000 euros, depending on the equipment. Buyers of this chair are therefore unlikely to belong to the classic SPD electorate.