Saxony's Minister-President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) would like to campaign for his party colleagues in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He recently caused a stir when he explicitly praised the work of his SPD counterpart, Manuela Schwesig, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. “I very much hope that the CDU will play a strong role in the next government,” Kretschmer told the German Press Agency in Dresden.
It may be unusual to praise an SPD colleague, he noted. But the truth is also that she is one of the most assertive colleagues and has achieved a great deal, Kretschmer said. “But you can tell that the state needs momentum, it needs change. When I look at the Union’s election platform—for example, on education policy and rural areas—I say: Thank goodness, there really is a fresh spirit there.”
