A gay Chancellor?

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Wowereit didn't make a move to run for nomination until now. Not the slightest. Many see him as a potential candidate for the very fact that he is the only high-ranking "left-winger" in the SPD at the moment. Besides that, no sign of interest on his side.

But the election is two years ahead.
And it seems that Steinbrück's strange ego-campaign flanked by his 91-year-old buddy Helmut Schmidt came to early, the media is annoyed already.

Of course the party leaders will try to make him the candidate anyhow.

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Oh, and this:

The interesting thing about that primary is: Klaus Wowereit is gay. His most famous statement is:

Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so, liebe Genossinnen und Genossen.
In English: I am gay, and that is a goog thing, dear party members.

Of course he says "comrades", not "party members".

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It's time to do away with that myth.

Well, he is a leftwinger because that is just his position in the framework of wings and groups inside the SPD. And that is what counts politically.