The SPD celebrates its 160th anniversary. In his speech, the Federal Chancellor urged people not to leave climate policy to the Greens.
He also spoke about his party's course towards Russia. The party is always attractive to voters when it implements the two-pronged approach between programmatic aspirations and pragmatic action, said Scholz. The SPD in particular must clearly stand by Ukraine's side in the conflict, he said. For it is also due to the détente policy of former Chancellor Willy Brandt that the principles of non-use of force, inviolability of borders, territorial integrity of states and the right of peoples to self-determination apply today.