What a weird way to introduce her. She’s a member of the Bavarian-exclusive CSU, one of the most corrupt parties. Extremely conservative, sabotaged the north-south power transmission line, which is holding back all of europes energy transition.
I mean “helicopter engineer” just reads as “military industrial complex slave” to me anyway so it doesnt make her sound good either way. Thats probably not the average persons interpretation, but even if not, she was at Airbus Helicopters for only 4 years until 1994, so she has been a full time CSU politician for 32 years. Doubt there is anything left of her humanity after that.
FYI: the president is only a representative position in Germany, a lot like the king in the UK. Also obviously our highest political office (“chancellor”) has been in female hands for a long time already. So this headline is a little misleading.
Also obviously our highest political office (“chancellor”)
This is just plain wrong. The Chancellor is the head of the government, the president is the head of the state. Highest political office are president on top, then the president of the Bundestag and only on third place the Chancellor. The fact that in daily politics, the Chancellor usually has more interesting stuff to decide and work on (because the government is in charge of daily politics) and is therefore a lot more visible in the daily news does not mean he is above those two.
It’s even in the article:
a largely ceremonial role but nonetheless Germany’s highest state position
Meh. I think the point they’re making stands, we have; king > govenor general > prime minister. But people would say the the PM is our top political office.
I love you explaining German politics to a German. Go off I guess.
As a German I kind of think I can do that, yes. Especially when they’re plain wrong.
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