"We Have Lost Character: Klingbeil Wants to Revive SPD Branders as Workers' Party

Hubertus Heil (SPD) reviews his time as Minister of Labour in "Maischberger". Own mistakes and "evil campaigns" had caused the citizens' money to fail. Journalist Nikolaus Blume finds that with his politics Heil has also driven the working population to the AfD.

The SPD politician Fechner gives himself completely down-to-earth. He always stays away from the Bundestag. But the image gets a scratch.

SPD leader Lars Klingbeil admits omissions: The party has lost its profile as a representative of the workers. He wants to focus the SPD more on the concerns of the working population.

In about a month, Finance Minister Klingbeil wants to present the new budget. Now, he pushes all departments to save. Furthermore, the SPD leader declares that his party has lost its character as a workers' party.

The budget is one of the urgent tasks of the new finance minister. He starts with an appeal to the cabinet colleagues: Despite the new debt regulations no one should sit back. The chairman also acknowledges his SPD to have lost its character as a workers' party.

The SPD seems to give many people the impression that they only care about civic money, said Federal Finance Minister Klingbeil. He stops saving his colleagues in the cabinet.