I can remember any President since Karl Carstens, who was with his choice of the people as controversial as Christian Wulff . Carstens at the reasons were obvious: He was a member of the Nazi party had, also in SA - it was then unthinkable for many in Germany, a man to provide with such Nazi career, the country's highest office. However, Carstens met several conditions that Wulff is not true: Carstens arrived at the end of his (party) political career, and he had proved his fitness as President of the Bundestag for completing cross-party political offices.
As Carstens finally was in office, he fulfilled the hopes placed in him in the best sense - as he essentially did nothing. It is not for his rousing speeches made famous, such as a Richard von Weizsacker, or a Roman Herzog. He stood out because he had traveled in the Republic. No worse faux pas famous - but not a political impulse is stuck.
Also from Wulff we can probably expect at best that he makes no trouble. But seriously expect someone that brings Wulff as President of this country forward? He's been prime minister barely noticed by prominent political ideas. He simply has a candidate until the Lower Saxony had adjusted to him and the SPD finally, no real opponents in the quiver had more - he has become Prime Minister. At just 50 years, Wulff even at the end of his political career. Even if - which may prevent the political circumstances surrounding - Wulff two terms as federal president is behind him, he is still only 60 years old, too young to cede the political stage. This Wulff is an active state politicians and the CDU-Bureau member - because bipartisanship is hardly to be expected. It germinates in the uncomfortable suspicion that Angela Merkel wants to secure their party's candidacy Wulff's a power base, as long as it still has the power. So, Mrs Merkel, is this office but not really meant.
The people have formed a clear opinion about Christian Wulff: The magazine Stern cited a poll by the Forsa Institute, that 32 percent of Germans would vote for the Christian Wulff President - Can be as much as the CDU is currently achieve in elections. Joachim Gauck , the candidate, the SPD and the Greens have brought into play, meets all the criteria that a good, fulfilling a trend-setting Federal President must. He is (even though the CDU attached) and non-party must prove politically any person. It is selectable for each upright Democrats without problems - and that the left does not help him fall back to the Left rather than harmed.
Angela Merkel has to seriously question what she has actually ridden to propose a soldier for the party office, if only she had experienced personalities as Gauck can ask.
I would be happy if Joachim Gauck would our next President. The Czech Republic had the size to make a dissident to the presidency.
to see how this Joachim Gauck ticking, here is a speech he made on the occasion of the 20th has kept anniversary of the Berlin Wall fell. The speech is long, unfortunately, about an hour, and the synchronization is somewhat out of step. Nevertheless: Imagine me, what Christian Wulff had said on the subject.
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