(S+) SPD Leader Miersch: Klingbeil's Most Important Man

Your new chairman Matthias Miersch has to heal the wounds that his close confidant Lars Klingbeil has broken. Can this work?

Discontent with the party leadership is growing among SPD foreign policy experts. "With a CDU foreign minister, it would have been important to take over the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Rolf Mützenich would have been predestined for the job," former Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller told "Der Spiegel." "Instead, the leadership gave away the chairmanship, and it went to Armin Laschet as a consolation prize." Former parli…