Saturday, September 13, 2008

Wisdom Teeth Gums Bone Through

Among herbs (FR)

In herbs
fell in the wall of the Berlin CDU never
OF BERNHARD HONNIGFORT
Berlin. The dark suit: impeccable. The crisp white shirt: no wrinkles. The orange tie: perfect. There he stood in the hallway outside room 311 of the Berlin House of Representatives, outwardly a flawless appearance. Only the grim face spoke the truth: it hurts so much. I'm a wreck, politically at the end. "I love this City, "wailed the man," My kids are big here. I would like to work for them. This is my life's work. "Combative sound he wanted. It was pity erregend.Friedbert Pflügers short career in the CDU in Berlin is drawing to a close. The mighty circle chairman did not do in the group hail of dismissal motions against the chief. On Thursday .. at eleven clock they want to pull the final stroke of Berlin CDU removed their only presentable politician

The destruction work is quickly described: The leader Pflüger was awkward a week ago and the country's chairmanship of party leader Ingo Schmitt, after his coup rumors have heard something. asked he held the position. But he had overestimated himself and messed with the wrong people. When he had gepikst into a hornet's nest, was the CDU her about her ex-hope. In no time they made him fertig.Die CDU in Berlin is very special, Pflüger has the experience now. When he was three years ago, he was to be the savior. He was third or fourth choice, because no one dared, as the leading candidate of the CDU in an election against Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) to draw. Not so much for Wowereit, but because of the CDU. Rows of top people had been canceled as Friedrich Merz, Klaus Toepfer. Not even in protective suits they wanted to get close to the CDU.

Pflüger failed grandiose

Berlin CDU is the national association in the dusty realms Angela Merkel. There, the wall has never been made: Most of the 12 000 members based in West Berlin, the trend-setting figures are from the West. There, the party is 25 percent in the polls, to the east at 13 She has remained an 80-year party, send a clique club that feels as if the cozy Eberhard Diepgen still reign, the Rias and Harald Juhnke sing on Regent Street. A simple lower middle class party with meat balls smell, stuffy and herbaceous, walled up like the old West Berlin.

They still reigned until 2001. Then it swept the near-destruction of the State Bank Diepgen and the Christian Democrats. With him, Jörg Schönbohm, the more quirky interior minister, who likes to summon the multicultural Kreuzberg scene. And Volker Hassemer, the distinguished Senator culture. In addition, Group CEO Klaus Landowsky, the old Strippenzieher.Nach the West Berliners was the Social Democrat Klaus Wowereit, Berlin's first overall. He adapted to the city, calling itself suddenly metropolis: cheeky, easygoing, active at night, gruff, short sleeves. He ruled red-red and saved as a black man.

in Hannover in 2006 seized the tiller case. He gave up his post as Secretary of Defense, gave back his parliamentary mandate, could be all the needs of Berlin. He wanted the old CDU Prime, open for young people, East Berlin, Migrants. He talked about climate change and black-yellow-green alliances. He wanted to get out of their neighborhood, the CDU and prepare them against the party master Wowereit.Er failed grandiose. selected to the Berliners who neither liked him in 2006. At its stilted Art Above all, his party colleagues who sacrifice him and the work of renewal rather than to give him the cushy positions of party chairman. Could come at any yes.