Now, wasn’t that quick? In fact, it was so quick, I get the impression there was simply no alternative to Herr Gauck as a candidate.
Here are a few ideas on the extremely fast week-end decisions.
- It was too fast for my taste. I would have liked to have a few days in order to put a little distance between the past and the future. Doesn’t our constitution give us as much as thirty days? They should have taken advantage of those days in order to have a procedure for finding and deciding on the new candidate that is rooted in society and more democratic. With a real vote four weeks from now.
- I do not find it a good idea that the holder of the office apparently has been selected by a small circle of politicians.
- I fear the decision has been made for populist reasons (the next election campaign already looms large).
- I am not delighted about a pastor and church representative becoming Federal President. My preference would have been an entrepreneur, manager, artist, philosopher, journalist, athlete, teacher or member of some other profession.
On Herr Gauck:
I do not know enough about him. Since he was without a chance the last time around, I never bothered to make myself knowledgeable on him. I assumed he was going to disappear with as little fuss as Gesine did.
Well, they say he does not separate “liberty” and “responsibility”. Is it really something exceptional if you formulate a banal truth? I am a little worried because he was “GDR civil liberties campaigner” while at the same time allegedly having enjoyed special privileges in the GDR.
Other than that, I find there is nothing left to say about the show they staged.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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