Habeck fires Graichen: clear message to green amigos

As an empathetic buddy who sets out to save the world, Robert Habeck once topped the popularity rankings among top politicians. Now Germany has a whole new one Economics Minister experienced. Habeck, the merciless bouncer.

What the Green Minister made live in front of the cameras with his most important collaborator to date was a political flash execution. All the pledges of allegiance of the past few weeks – forgotten.

Also read: “One mistake too many”: Patrick Graichen has to go

It was certainly not just the “new findings” that the leadership of the ministry was talking about Greeks had attained. It’s about 600,000 euros in funding that Graichen approved for an organization in which his sister held a management position. Yes, something like that weighs heavily. But it is much more serious for Habeck that the criticism of him and his ministry does not want to be silenced.

Habeck needed a radical break with Graichen

The anger about the heating law, the green one felt, the political volatility – Robert Habeck now has more stormy breezes in his face in the capital than the dike warden in St. Peter-Ording. From Habeck’s perspective, this has to change quickly, otherwise he will lose his effectiveness. The radical break with his state secretary is Habeck’s firewall so that he doesn’t burn himself to death.

And that he publicly kicked Graichen out is an unmistakable message to green people Friends thought in my own house: Whoever brings me or my ministry into disrepute flies. Habeck did the right thing by dismissing Patrick Graichen. The next few weeks will show whether it was still in time and how many “family and friends” are still in the ministry.

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