Aujourd’hui, The Independent<\/a> s’\u00e9panche sur son cas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab The election race appears to have revived Mr Schr\u00f6der, who has often seemed weary of the cares of office. Not long ago a couple of 12-year-olds sent by the state broadcaster, ARD, asked him to write down his greatest wish. He paused thoughtfully, and then scrawled the simple word health. This raised many eyebrows. What about a third term in office? A massive reduction in the five million Germans unemployed? Sustained growth for his country’s beleaguered economy? It conveyed the image of a man who almost wanted to lose.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb You certainly get the impression he’s had enough, said Tom Levine, a leading German political commentator. It’s why he called early elections in the first place. He wanted to be Chancellor so he could get things done. He could see that just wasn’t going to happen in his final year in office.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb As well as facing another year of his unpopular reform programme, blocked by the CDU majority in parliament’s upper house, he has good personal reasons for wanting out. Doris Schr\u00f6der-Kopf, his fourth wife, is 20 years his junior and is said to be keen to move to New York to restart her journalistic career after seven years in her husband’s shadow. The couple also recently adopted a four-year-old Russian girl, Viktoria. Mr Schr\u00f6der, now 61, has reportedly told friends that this election is a clear choice between victory and Viktoria.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Mr Schr\u00f6der, known as the bosses’ Chancellor’, is comfortable in big-business circles and there are rumours that he plans to go on to work for the Russian energy firm Gazprom. He could also supplement his 7,500 (\u00a35,000)-a-month Chancellor’s pension and 326,000 transition money’ by giving speeches earning thousands a time. You’d have to ask the man himself, of course, but my bet is he wants to make money now, said Professor Gert-Joachim Glaessner, a political scientist at Berlin’s Humboldt University. He knows he has no political future. Better to win, or go out with a bang, than get weaker and weaker like John Major did.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Mr Schr\u00f6der’s personal approval rating shot up six points last week to 54 per cent. Even if he doesn’t want to be, he remains a popular figure. I think it’s sad, said Luiselotte Schm\u00fcck, a life-long SPD voter who had come to see Mr Schr\u00f6der speak at an election rally in Kassel. \u00a0\u00bbIt’s as if he knows he’s going to lose, but he’s fighting on through duty.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Last week, however, the Forsa opinion poll put the SPD at 43 per cent, its best rating since January. Heartened supporters tied hand-painted placards to trees outside Mr Schr\u00f6der’s Hanover home, urging: Do it Again, Gerd!’ Schr\u00f6der’s certainly not playing to win, said Mr Levine, but it seems there’s a chance that the Chancellor could still gain a third term, almost despite himself.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 11 septembre 2005 \u00e0 06H20<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gerhardt Schr\u00f6der veut-il \u00eatre r\u00e9\u00e9lu? La question se pose bien qu’il soit d\u00e9sormais question qu’il puisse l’\u00eatre. Il y a, autour de Schr\u00f6der un cas personnel qui est int\u00e9ressant. Il illustre bien les murs politiques de l’\u00e9poque : non pas tant l’\u00e9ventuelle lassitude ou le go\u00fbt de l’argent facilement gagn\u00e9, ou les pressions d’une \u00e9pouse,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}