Despite negotiations
SPD leader on vacation-criticism from the party
Updated on March 21, 2025 – 11:18 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
SPD boss Saskia Esken has apparently spontaneously flown on vacation while her party is negotiating with the CDU. Anonymously express their displeasure.
The SPD-CO chairman Saskia Esken flew to the Canary Islands for a short vacation-even though your party is in the middle of the stress of the upcoming coalition negotiations. This reports “Bild”. There is therefore clear criticism of the party leader from the SPD.
“Esken confirms with her vacation itself that she does not play an important role,” the leaf quotes anonymously an SPD member. “Klingbeil is in Berlin, does the work, gives the course. Esken has flown into the sun thousands of kilometers. That is not possible,” said the MP. Lars Klingbeil is the chairman of the SPD alongside Esken.
In the context that Esken has recently indirectly claimed a ministerial office, there is further criticism. According to “Bild”, a comrade formulates as follows: “It cannot be that Saskia secures an office in the slipstream of Lars.”
Esken’s party friend Anke Rehlinger, Prime Minister of the Saarland, took the party leader against criticism of her short vacation. “I saw her yesterday in a long video circuit conference,” said Rehlinger “Welt TV”. “No matter where she is, she works for sure.”
According to the short vacation “Bild”, Esken himself justified as an important recovery before the upcoming negotiations. Since it is not part of the working groups currently available, it would not be missing in Berlin either.
Esken’s environment also emphasized that the SPD politician was constantly accessible on vacation. From the Canaries, too, it could intervene in preparing the upcoming discussions.
