Favorite dreams of the knock-out victory

Mardi 29 juin 2010 2 29 /06 /Juin /2010 20:37

Favorite dreams of the knock-out victory

Christian Wulff is already in party mood: The black and yellow is a candidate for success in the first round of the Federal President. The chances of his opponent Joachim Gauck vanish every hour, the left wants him to choose not partout - one last attempt at reconciliation failed.

Berlin - Christian Wulff is a very cautious person. All the more remarkable as he is so confident of victory just before the Federal election. "I am because of the many reactions but very confident that it could work in the first round of voting," the black-yellow candidate said on Tuesday on the edge of a meeting with the choice of people of the CDU and FDP in Berlin. And then he showed his friendly Wulff-smile that he was the CDU prime minister of Lower Saxony practiced for years.

Optimism is also remarkable because leaders of his party rather tiefstapeln simultaneously. Under the motto: The more defensive the expectation management, the less can happen to us. Of course it would be nice if Wulff would be elected in the first round, Unions Parliamentary Group leader Volker Kauder said in the morning on ZDF. To add: "But if it succeeds in the second, it is also okay." At Peter Altmaier, Parliamentary Secretary of the Union Group, sounds like this: "is crucial for us that at the end of tomorrow, the President Christian Wulff called."

Perhaps Wulff's confidence in victory, a clever appeal to the black and yellow people choice in the Federal Assembly. Motto: "Please let me hang it." For, in view of the majority of CDU / CSU and FDP in the first round it would actually work with his choice. Anything else would be embarrassing to catastrophic for black-yellow.

Little doubt that Wulff is the new Federal President

One thing is clear: If it Wulff in the second or even third round, rich, would damage the coalition and thus Chancellor Angela Merkel. And the tenth President Christian Wulff would go with a damper to the new office.

For the SPD and Greens but disappears with each subsequent hour of optimism. Although the Social Democrats and Greens their candidate Joachim Gauck a day before the decision to praise beyond measure - but chances they expect from him apparently little else. "Very clearly calls" Thomas Oppermann, Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group, the chances of their own candidates. Only when Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed to release the election - as if by former Federal President Richard von Weizsacker - Gauck had a chance. This, however, believes Oppermann, not expected.
Shall be governed by the red-green-President candidate is an honorable defeat. Joachim Gauck has always emphasized "that I can count." And the broad social support and the amazing positive media response to him does not alter the arithmetic in the Federal Assembly.

But Joachim Gauck, the eternal fighter who will not give up.

"It's a great time," Gauck said on Tuesday afternoon, a reporter for the BBC, after he has just discussed about an hour with those who still do not want him to choose. His meeting with the Left parliamentary group Gauck describes as seeking the objective, open minded, fair ". But on the mishmash of this has changed nothing: The candidate Gauck is not for the great majority of the left selected.

Up to Wagenknecht heard all left to

We have listened to him is to learn from participants - until the deputy Sahra Wagenknecht, which was during the visit to deepen Gauck demonstratively in papers. And in the end there was even a bit of applause for the guest. "But more out of politeness," said a Left-parliamentarian. "Thanks for the visit," says Gregor Gysi, parliamentary leader, as he passed before the meeting Gauck.

Gauck needs the left for a relative majority in a possible third round - but he also wanted to advertise in the final sprint not over them. "Tough Enough in the matter" had been Gauck said one participant, it sounds even with a bit of respect. His yes to the Afghanistan mission of the Bundeswehr, his criticism of the overprotective welfare - all Gauck has repeatedly against the Left Group.

Exactly why it rejected the most left.

Especially as the party with Luc Jochimsen for the first and probably also a possible second round of voting their own candidate into the race sent. Jochimsen includes a vote for Gauck categorically. A vote, criticizing the Left always? "This is too much hooker in politics," Jochimsen said with dramatic words.

And in the third round? "Oh," says party leader Gysi, "because you make too many hopes." The election will be decided in the first or second round, he believes. A tiny back door per Gauck he wants to keep open but then after all. If it still give a third round, need the left "a long pause," to discuss the vote for the decisive round of voting.

Still wants Joachim Gauck not admit defeat. He says: "I had all the time this nomination does not feel that I had something to lose."

However, he expressed before his agenda in the event of defeat: He would then continue to interfere in public. The could not stop him from triggered debate about a more grassroots politics, Gauck said before the meeting with the SPD-choice people in Berlin. And: Regardless of the outcome of the election on Wednesday he would "be happy in any case."