The Social Democrats have recently had to struggle with low polls. The potential group of voters is large; there are a total of nine million eligible voters with a migration background in Germany.
Around a third of those eligible voters have family roots in Turkey. Meanwhile, right-wing extremists are becoming more prominent in the German political scene. The European elections are in a few weeks, and the SPD will also have to start thinking about the 2025 federal election. The party said it wanted to create an opportunity for an open exchange. A good 500 people were in the Kursaal in Stuttgart on Monday evening (April 15th) to discuss with Klingbeil and the Ludwigsburg Bundestag member Macit Karaahmetolu for a good two hours. “Open microphone – what motivates young German Turks” was the title of the evening. In fact, many in the room were happy about it. Klingbeil's general answer and swipe at the traffic light partner FDP: "You have to shout it out to the finance minister: the debt brake must not be a brake on the future" A "genocide" against Palestinians is happening in Israel, and loud applause in the hall. Atatürk was the first Turkish president after the First World War and is considered a pioneer of modern Turkey. He didn't like the word "allegedly" in connection with the CHP. Their party founder and "great reformer" Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ensured more equality and more education in the country. There was thunderous applause for that too. The two-state solution in ISRAEL and GAZA is the "ONLY POLITICAL SOLUTION" for peace, says Klingbeil. The SPD wants to loosen the rules significantly on how much new debt Germany should take on. The FDP wants to keep the debt brake in place.