In addition to earlier calls on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to have a cabinet reshuffle mid-term, in November-December, to improve his chances of re-election in the scheduled national election of autumn 2025, there have been calls, primarily from the opposition parties, for undertaking the reshuffle now, after the Federal governing coalition parties lost two state elections in Hesse and Bavaria on Oct. 8.
The T-online service, close to the government, has prominently joined these calls, noting that—apart from Defense Minister Boris Pistorius who happens to be the most prominent politician in Germany—all other cabinet ministers of the Social Democrats (SPD) are weak, pale figures:
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, a walking political corpse after the Hesse debacle, being at the top of the SPD slate, led her party to an all-time low at only 15.1%. Construction Minister Klara Geywitz, whose ambitious home-building project failed, with only 280,000 new flats expected to be completed by the end of the year, instead of a planned 400,000. (The minimal figure needed for planning, according to competent experts, was no less than 700,000.) Also cited were Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and Development Minister Svenja Schulze.
