(24 Jul 2024)
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Berlin, Germany – 24 July 2024
1. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arriving at news conference
2. Mid of photographers and cameras
3. Close of Scholz
4. Mid of photographers and cameras
5. Scholz and photographers
6. Scholz on podium, zoom in
7. Close of photographers in audience
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“Thank you for the very nice and friendly question.”
Reporter: "Always happy to."
“Always happy to, yes, exactly. And no the SPD (Social Democratic Party) is a very united party. We are all determined to go into the next general election campaign together and win. And I will run as chancellor to become chancellor again.”
9. Scholz and colleagues on podium
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“My conviction is that when it comes to elections again, we will have turned things around for the German Bundestag (parliament). That will also be what I’m pushing for all the time.”
11. Scholz on podium
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“I think it’s very possible that (US Vice President) Kamala Harris will win the election. But that’s for the American voters to decide. And as in the past decades, in which we in Germany have endeavoured to achieve good transatlantic cooperation, it will be the same in the coming decades. And I am firmly convinced of this.”
13. Wide of news conference
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“This is a competent and experienced politician (Kamala Harris) who knows exactly what she is doing and has very clear ideas about the role of her country, about developments in the world and about the challenges we are facing. And she does this very much on her own initiative. I have a lot of conversations. Confidentially too. And it’s always important for me to get an impression of whether someone is saying what has been prepared or whether there is a conversation where you present your views independently, which can also be taken forward with a certain amount of dialogue, and that’s the impression I got. She knows what she wants and what she can do.”
15. Mid of news conference
16. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“Of course, we are totally interested in the outcome of these elections. This is the superpower, this is the most powerful country in the world, and what happens there is of the utmost importance for all countries in the world and, of course, especially for the USA’s closest allies in Europe and Germany. And that is why it is clear to me that we must continue on the transatlantic course, as we have done in the past, and that this cannot depend on who is president of the United States. Our position must be clear.”
17. Scholz leaving
STORYLINE:
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday he is confident of turning around his struggling center-left party’s fortunes and will run for a second term as Germany’s leader in an election expected next year, dismissing a suggestion that he could emulate U.S. President Joe Biden and make way for someone else.
Scholz’s governing coalition, which took office at the end of 2021, set out to modernize Germany but has gained a reputation for constant discord and poor communication.
All three parties in the alliance have seen their support decline.
In the European Parliament election last month, the chancellor’s Social Democrats finished third with only 13.9% of the vote, their worst post-World War II showing in a nationwide election.
That’s far below the 25.7% support with which they narrowly won Germany’s last national election in 2021.
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