Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) did not have to get the book of his predecessor Angela Merkel (CDU) himself. “I don’t have to buy it, Angela Merkel sent it to me,” Scholz said on Deutschlandradio Kultur on Thursday. She captioned it “with very kind regards.” As Federal Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor in the grand coalition, he “Worked very well with her very often,” said Scholz.
He did not want to reveal what Merkel had written to him. For his part, Scholz ruled out that if he were defeated in the federal election on February 23, he would next write his memoirs.
In response to a viewer question on the “Studio 9” program about what he would do on the eve of the federal election, Scholz said: “Because February 23rd is also my wife’s birthday, I’ll probably celebrate a little with her. And then we hope for a nice evening together on the 23rd.”
In the program, Scholz was also confronted with photos from his youth, when he visited the GDR with long hair as deputy Juso chairman. When asked if he missed the long hair, Scholz said: “No. So, I’ve been getting used to them being gone for a while now.”
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He also has “At some point I made the right decision that I now go to the hairdresser much more often”said Scholz further. “When I still had long hair, it was every few weeks. Since I’ve had short hair, I’ve had to get it cut once a week.”