When the SPD leadership meets at the beginning of the year on Sunday, the two politicians who are currently the most talked about in the party will not be there: Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. Lambrecht has been a problem figure in the public eye for some time, she has bad press, and the Union opposition is demanding her resignation.

Faeser, on the other hand, has taken office after a few teething problems, and she is increasingly being praised in the party. But the federal government could lose her as a minister this year if she runs in Hesse as the SPD candidate for the office of prime minister. Nothing has been officially decided yet, at the beginning of February Faeser and the Hessian comrades want to make a decision. The position of the two ministers is natural