100 days of multivitamin juice: a record of Kai Wegner's first term

100 days of multivitamin juice: a record of Kai Wegner's first term

Comment | Wegner's first months in office - 100 days of multivitamin juice

FR 04.08.23 | 06:18 pm | By Sebastian Schöbel

. After a good three months you can hold on: it wasn't a conservative “rollback” - but also not a visionary new beginning, comments Sebastian Schöbel.

When I stand in front of the juice shelf with my two children in the supermarket, they rarely manage to agree on a variety. In the end, it almost always gets: multivitamin juice. There is so much different fruit in it that it somehow tastes of nothing specific. This does not trigger enthusiasm, but also no argument.

So you could say that Kai Wegner is the multivitamin juice among the heads of government: he wants to make it right for everyone without leaving a bad aftertaste. Wegner is dancing on Christopher Street Day, but does not want to gender in everyday administrative life. He wants to "tidy up" the Görlitzer Park with hardness, while the debt brake softened. He does not want to expropriate real estate companies due to a lack of new construction or poor tenant protection, but distributed more residential authorization notes, even to people with medium -sized incomes.

and in a double household, something is simply packed everywhere instead of saving significantly, even if the last reserves have to be used up.

The vision is missing

From Wegner's perspective, this is the pragmatic, connecting and "unidological" path that he promised: a fruity cocktail with a bit of everything for everyone who ends up with indefinable. But the glass is full.

A specific vision, on the other hand, cannot be recognized by Wegner. You could rub yourself on that, she could cause conflicts - which Wegner obviously wants to avoid. Instead, the impression arises that this black-red Senate circulates the uncomfortable issues, such as debt burden or the debt issue or the turnaround in traffic in order to position itself as well as possible for the 2026 elections.

The big challenges are still coming

that there is another way that controversy, ideological ideas are lurking behind closed doors, traffic senator Manja Schreiner alone showed - because she was awkward. In the end there was nothing countable from the review of various cycle path projects, except for the impression that the CDU wants to delay the farewell from the car -friendly city as often as it also claims the opposite. However, it was also the only outlier in the black and red juice mixture in the first 100 days.

100 days are also not a sensible bar, especially not with the large, long -term challenges that this Senate also has to deal with. But the situations will come in which Wegner has to pour something politically to the Berliners that really doesn't taste - maybe even a lot.

For example, the realization that his promised administrative modernization cannot be implemented as quickly as hoped, because, for example, the electronic acts is a disaster. Or if the location on the housing market changes from a questionable too catastrophic and the new building finally loses the connection to the needs.

Then it does multivit