Martin Schulz: The ex-alcoholic “Robin hood” who wants to dethrone Merkel!

A few months ago, the Άγγελα Merkel seemed unwavering. But the German chancellor is in danger of no longer by the social democrat opponent, Martin Schulz, who today begins his campaign to dethrone.
It will break the ultimate record?
During an extraordinary congress of the party, Schultz is going to get officially the reins and pick up a little more of the veil that covers the battle plan of a view to the parliamentary elections in September.
Former president of the European Parliament, the 61χρονος Schultz will take over officially at noon, the presidency of the social democratic Party, which is the successor to the current head of the German diplomacy and vice-chancellor Ζίγκμαρ Gabriel.

According to the German media, can gather more than 90% of the votes, even to reach the historical record of 99,71% that was achieved in 1948. In December 2015, Gabriel had gathered in spite of 74,3%.
The nickname “Robin hood”, football and alcoholism
However, the decision of Martin Schulz leave the European Parliament, of which he presided, and to carry out a campaign in a position of some popular Ζίγκμαρ Gabriel changed the data.
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Known for his rhetorical talent, Martin Schultz has spent the main part of his career at the european level, and not until now had received a major order in Germany. Because of this I haven’t had to support government policy, exercised by a coalition in which it participated in the party, and can be displayed like a new man.
The unusual course, and the folk origin combined with a very left reason, it offers a pop of glamour that sweetens the “βρυξελλιώτικο” profile. It is a trump card, the moment that euroscepticism making profits in Europe.
The same of life’s alternative: Is a recovering alcoholic, as a result of a knee surgery, which put an end to the dreams of a brilliant football career. He is also a former bookseller who had passed the examinations for higher education…

This is the policy he wants to implement
“It is my intention to exercise the policies that make the lives of people who work hard a little bit better, find obviously a lot of support,” he said this week the man who wants to amend the labour market reforms carried out by the social democrat ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the period from 2003 to 2005.
Marching to the left, for which the German Press has already given him the nickname “the Robin hood of the SPD”
These reforms were, until now, a totem of the SPD and a combined decrease in benefits and increase pressure on the unemployed to find work again.
Can be allowed in Germany to reduce unemployment at a historically low level, but they also created a generation of “poor workers” in precarious employment.
The social democrat Schulz has now revealed some of the measures that is looking to get: unemployment benefits for a longer period of time, more guaranteed pensions, almost abolition of fixed-term contracts for the benefit of a contract indefinite in time.
If the German radical left applauds and does no longer rule out a potential coalition with the SPD after the parliamentary elections, the conservatives and the employers talk of “populism”.
Rise in the polls

Martin Schultz is on the rise in the polls by the end of January appointed candidate of the SPD for chancellor in view of the parliamentary elections of 24 September, in which the Άγγελα Merkel will claim a fourth term for the conservatives.
I wonder if we will have the overthrow of this that a lot of present as the strongest woman in the world?
Previously we held three regional votes have a value of test, with the first elections in the tiny regional state of Saarland (western Germany) in a week, where the social democrats are threatening the CDU’s Merkel.
As in the polls comes chest to chest with Merkel, with little more than 30%, Schultz does not hide his appetites: “I Have the ambition to be chancellor” and do the SPD “the first political force in the country,” he says while Merkel is in power since 2005 .
The last appears serene in front of the ambitions of the opponent: “competition stimulates things,” he said Friday in a regional paper Saarbruecker Zeitung. However, a member of the environment he confessed in a private conversation: “the situation is difficult”.

This outcome was unthinkable before just a few months, when the SPD, the minor partner of the coalition government that had created the conservatives at the federal level, it was crawling with 20% of intentions of vote in spite of the criticism against the immigration policy of the Άγγελας Merkel.
Source: ana – MPA