Berlin: nicknamed “Scholzomat” for his robot speech, the remaining Olaf Social Democrat (SPD) candidate to replace Angela Merkel, it was hardly prominent because of the grew in the election of Run-to September.
But unlike the two main rivals, Armin Laschet from the Alliance of CDU-CSU Merkel and Annalena Baerbock from Greens, the 63-year-old child has not yet managed to make a shameful mistake on the campaign lane.
As a result, Scholz is now in the range of Chancellor’s reach only a month before the election.
At the beginning of the year, the SPD was very trailing in the poll that many have removed many opportunities that the party – currently a junior partner in the coalition with conservative Merkel – will be part of the next government.
But the latest surveys have SPD neck and neck with conservatives, and when they are included where the Germans want to see as their next chancellor, Scholz is a street in front.
One poll on Tuesday even had SPD before the conservative block for the first time since 2006.
Even if the SPD did not come first in the September 26 vote, Scholz could still be a chancellor if he was able to form a coalition with other parties.
As Minister of Finance and Chancellor’s Deputy under Merkel, Scholz is one of the most influential German politicians and the only one of the three candidates who have held a minister’s office.
During the time at the post, the man is often described as thorough, confident, and very ambitious has strengthened his reputation because of fiscal conservative.
Despite agreeing to suspend the “debt brakes” of Germany who were valued to prevent the mud effect from the Pandemic Coronavirus, he insisted on returning to the policy in 2023.
“All of this is expensive, but does nothing else,” he insisted at that time.
Scholz’s careful approach at times seeing was marginalized in his own workers, ignored in the leadership sound in 2019 supporting two relatively unknown left wings.
But he has received a superior policy of SPD in the election campaign, opposes the reduction of wealth taxes promised by conservatives and supports the increase in minimum wages.
Apart from his tight grip on German finances, he was known to loosen the wallet string, especially as the Mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, when he redeemed the elbphilharmonie concert hall that was too cheap.
For Scholz, who is the motto of whom “I can only distribute what I have”, the expenditure was justified by healthy finance countries.
Born in the northern city of Osnabrueck, Scholz joined SPD as a teenager.
He teased with more remaining ideals but soon came to choose a more centric course.
After training as a lawyer who specializes in labor issues, Scholz was elected as the National Parliament in 1998.
He married fellow SPD Politicians Britta Ernst in the same year.
It was in 2002-2004 as the SPD Secretary General that he received a “robot” moniker for his dry but tireless defense of unpopular labor reform from his idol, then – Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
As the Minister of Labor in the Merkel’s first coalition government from 2007 to 2009, Scholz helped prevent mass stops during the financial crisis by convincing the company to cut workers’ workers with countries to take their salaries – the policies were repeated during a pandemic.
Deputy Leader SPD for almost a decade, he also supports deeper euro zone integration and greater German contributions to the post-brexit budget.
Scholz has admitted that he is “not someone who is very emotional in politics”.
But the lack of charisma never disturbs Merkel, with couples enjoying close relationships.
The Chancellor stood in Scholz in 2017 when he faced a call to resign after violent protests at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, and also during the recent wirecard scandal.
Wirecard, so starred in the Fintech German scene, was submitted for bankruptcy last year in what had been described as the largest post-war accounting scandal.
As Head of the Ministry of Finance, which oversees Bafin’s banking regulator, Scholz has burned the signs that are missing that something is wrong in the company.
Olaf Scholz: a safe hand partner who wants Merkel’s job
