Green party leader candidate Robert Habeck confirms his leadership claim – regardless of the current poll results..
“‘You really have to want the Chancellor’s office, and that means with all your heart and soul,’ he told Bild am Sonntag. ‘That’s not just some kind of experience you collect along the way. And if it’s bad, I’ll be gone again.’ He has ‘seen it up close now.’ Habeck further stated, ‘You have to have thoroughly tested yourself beforehand.’ He has done that for himself, ‘and that’s what I want, and that’s what I will be as Chancellor.'”
The Green party politician also acknowledged that trust in the coalition has decreased: “Of course, I’ve seen that we’ve lost trust, not just in politics or government, but also in my person.” However, the trend is reversing, the Minister of Economics believes: “Trust is coming back, so it seems to me.” He has been a professional politician for nearly 20 years and no longer feels the need to prove himself or his party.
“He can combine his ‘growing experience, including the learning steps from the last legislative period, with what brought me into politics in the first place – namely, offering to solve the problems and (…) make the country a bit better.'”
Habeck: ‘That brings me to this, in fact a bit from the underdog position formulated, but then presented with self-confidence, that I would like to lead Germany, not just take the lead.'”
Note: I optimized the translation by rephrasing some sentences to make them more natural in English, while still maintaining the original meaning.