Sommerinterview: Bas verteidigt Doppelrolle als SPD-Chefin und Ministerin: „Ich verheddere mich nicht“
Die SPD-Co-Chefin gibt sich trotz desaströser Umfragewerte pragmatisch. Von der Union fordert sie, dass sie ihre Position bei der Rente klärt.
Bundesarbeitsministerin Bärbel Bas appears neither panicked nor unsettled during her ZDF summer interview in the city of her youth, the MSV Duisburg stadium. Surveys indicating her desolation, protests from her base, speculation about her party leadership, or the country's employment figures of over three million unemployed do not seem to trouble her much.
Instead, Bas focuses on defending her dual role as SPD chief and minister, proudly raising the banner of the worker's party and urging her coalition partner to clarify his stance on the contentious pension reform. The issue of this acute pension dispute, which the Union's Rentenkommission recommended to be a "total art work," caught her attention, leading her to dub it as such and subsequently stifle any debate at its onset.
Chancellor's three East German coalition partners now wish to maintain the "rent with 63," a famous "pension at 63" that the SPD once implemented against the Union and remains a party decision. Bas sees this as an opportunity for the CDU to define its role, allowing her to present herself as loyal to the coalition, objective and reliable.
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