Overview
- Lawmakers are expected to vote Wednesday on elevating Schulze to succeed Reiner Haseloff as minister-president.
- Recent polling cited in the coverage places the AfD at roughly 40% versus the CDU at about 26%, a 14-point gap.
- Schulze rules out cooperation with the AfD, pointing to policy differences and saying the party would send a reported €2.6 billion federal special fund back to Berlin.
- He frames his top priority as economic stabilization and keeping young people in the state through more training places and jobs.
- On welfare policy, he argues that able Bürgergeld recipients should provide counter-performance and pursue qualifications to reenter the labor market.