Published: 9 Nov 12 11:10 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20121109-46073.html
The Social Democrat challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel has seriously damaged his party's reputation after just a month as its figurehead - because of a row over his highly paid speeches, a leading newspaper suggested on Friday.
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Making more with your speaking fees than your full time job? How do you even find time for several hundred speeches anyway? Does that guy ever do what the people elected him for?
Purge the party of all those who will sell principles for a power share.