Martin Schulz he is the new president of the SPD, the German social democratic party, and thus becomes Angela Merkel's main antagonist in view of the September elections for the chancellery. The former president of the European Parliament was elected by the SPD congress with 100% of the votes.
The duty of a chancellor is "through a strong Germany, hold together a strong Europe. Germany and Europe are inseparable – said Schulz – We want the SPD to become the strongest party in the country and I want to become the next chancellor of the Federal Republic”.
As for the recent diplomatic crisis with the Turkey, “the German government must have a clear attitude towards Erdogan's Turkey. Erdogan must be clearly told that this is not the case. And his strategy will fail sooner or later,” he added.
Since Schulz's entry into the field, who replaced Sigmar Gabriel in the chancellery challenge against Angela Merkel, the SPD has recovered a lot of support, up to overtaking – a few weeks ago – Merkel's Union.
Currently the polls see a head to head between the two parties. After seven and a half years at the helm of the party, Gabriel has taken a step back precisely to save the Social Democrats from a crisis of identity and consensus.
Schulz will announce his election program in June. So far he has pledged to close "the unbearable" salary differential of women and men but also that between the payrolls of the East and the West, with the help of the unions.
The number one Social Democrat has so far mainly disclosed the social aspects of his political agenda: he would like, for example, to revise Agenda 2010, welfare reform which cut a lot of welfare spending and helped jump-start the German economy in the mid-XNUMXs. But that it was branded SPD and had put the party on a collision course with an important part of its electorate.
Schulz also has attacked the tax cuts announced by the Cdu: "They are extremely unfair plans: investments are needed". And he also returned to promise free training, “from kindergarten to university”.
