(25 Nov 2024)
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Berlin, Germany – 25 November 2024
1. Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor, arriving with SPD leaders
2. Cutaway photographer
3. Scholz walking up to podium
4. Willy Brandt (former German Chancellor) statue on display inside SPD headquarters
5. Boris Pistorius, German Defence Minister, standing next to podium
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“Thank you very much for the decision that the party executive committee made today. It’s a very clear, very consensual vote. We want to fight together. We want to work to ensure that our country continues to thrive with a policy that ensures that we can cope well in difficult times.”
7. Wide of Scholz at podium
8. Photographer
9. Wide of Scholz at podium
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“Those who have spoken out publicly are behind me and behind this decision. I discussed it with all of them and they also told me of their own accord. I thought it was okay that there was a brief pause." (for a discussion over whether he is the right candidate for the party).”
11. Pistorius standing next to stage
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“But it is a good feeling to know that we have paused together and have now made up our minds and want to achieve together what we succeeded in doing last time, namely that the citizens of this country voted for the SPD to become the strongest party.”
13. Wide of podium, applause
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“And now it’s a federal election. It is up to the citizens to decide what happens next. Whether they can rely on someone sitting in the Chancellor’s office who will not allow himself to be put under pressure, who will keep his nerve on this issue (referring to support for Ukraine), who knows what really matters in such a serious matter. And that is the promise that I and the SPD are making to the citizens.”
15. Scholz posing together with leading SPD politicians, among them Boris Pistorius
STORYLINE:
Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) has unanimously nominated Olaf Scholz as its candidate for chancellor after a controversial debate.
His nomination comes after two weeks of discussions amongst party members over whether to back Scholz for a second term or to support Defence Minister Boris Pistorius instead.
Germany’s popular defence minister was one of the 33 voting members of the executive committee who backed Scholz.
Last week, Pistorius took himself out of contention to become the country’s next leader.
His decision cleared the way for Scholz to seek a second term in an early election after a week of arguments that exposed deep divisions in his struggling party.
Scholz and SPD leaders have vowed to fight their way back from a wide poll deficit ahead of the election, expected to take place Feb. 23.
They insisted that the chancellor’s three years in power have brought successes and that the Social Democrats weren’t responsible for the infighting that pushed Scholz’a unpopular three-party coalition government to collapse this month.
"We want to fight together. We want to work to ensure that our country continues to thrive with a policy that ensures that we can cope well in difficult times.” Scholz told supporters in Berlin on Monday.
But a week of very public arguments about who should lead the fightback is widely viewed as having damaged the party further.
The question of how to reinvigorate Germany’s economy is likely to be central to the election campaign.
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