🇩🇪 Predict the allocation of the ministries in the upcoming Scholz cabinet 🚦

[President Johnson]

My cabinet prediction:

- Chancellor: Olaf Scholz
- Vice Chancellor/Foreign: Annalena Baerbock
- Finance: Christian Lindner
- Climate and Environment: Robert Habeck
- Interior: Christine Lambrecht
- Labor: Hubertus Heil (retained)
- Economy: Volker Wissing
- Defense: Lars Klingbeil
- Justice: Svenja Schulze
- Health: Karl Lauterbach
- Agriculture: Some Green from a state cabinet
- Family Affairs: Katrin Göring-Eckhardt (?)
- Digital infrastructure: Johannes Vogel (FDP)
- Transportation: Anton Hofreiter
- Education: Saskia Esken
- Economic Cooperation: Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (?)
- Chief of Chancellery: Wolfgang Schmidt


I still think Baerbock will end up as vice chancellor because the chancellor is male.

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) is also an obvious and qualified candidate Defense, though Lars Klingbeil is certainly a given since Scholz will award him for putting together an excellent campaign for the SPD.

Now that Bärbel Bas is nominated for Bundestag president, chances for Karl Lauterbach as Health Minister have increased. I really hope he gets the position.

A big question is whether the Greens will change their statutes since party leaders aren't permited to hold cabinet positions. I really don't think Baerbock and Habeck will give up the positions as party leaders. Their standings within the party aren't in question at all.