Thursday, March 11, 2010

Steinmeier's blond angel of hope



Berlin - Can prevent the SPD black and yellow, yet? The schöns te mate, Chancellor Frank-Walter Stein Meier candidate is young, blond, slender:
Manuela Schwesig (35), Social Security in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, traveling in the fight for every vote by Germany.
It is the hope of angels the SPD. Beauty is now often wins in politics. Successes like that of FDP Ms Silvana Koch-Mehrin in the EU elections or the popularity of smart CSU Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg show das Stein Meier knows that too, got into his competency Schwesig team.
But what Manuela Schwesig on it? EXPRESS accompanied her one day in mid-Wahlkampf.Berlin, visit the "Business Women", the largest center in Europe for new businesses. The elevator stops - too full. Schwesig is the first person who says, "I'll run 'up the stairs."
She looks down to earth, is always friendly. In the interview, she smiles, without a pause, her eyes never leaving the sight of Gegenübers.Erst seven years ago she joined the SPD, is Minister for ten months. It is a quick guide to the major political re-store - and mad. The voice is so quiet that you will get very close in order to understand them.
 Schwesig increases in their black ministers-Audi, can drive in the Kreuzberg district. Visit to a nursery. The politician is looser. She plays with the children, she takes on her arm. She loves the little ones - it shows. Her son (2.5 years) brings her almost every day by bicycle to kindergarten.
In the evening it goes to the Young Socialists. 80 young politicians meet in the trendy district of Friedrichshain, to talk about "modern women's policy." Manuela Schwesig is warming up. "I find it abhorrent, as Mrs von der Leyen vibrates with the birth of the thighs."
A point against her CDU opponent, Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen. It is her first tough set of the day.