It cannot be said that Olaf Scholz is looking for cheap applause when he chooses his new defense minister. The chancellor brings a state politician to Berlin and thus dupes the SPD parliamentary group; Scholz makes a man Minister of Defense who hasn't had much to do with the Bundeswehr apart from military service, and thus doesn't make the politicians look good; Scholz prefers a man, thereby repealing the parity he had promised in the cabinet and snubbing women; In addition to Hubertus Heil, he appoints another Lower Saxony to the cabinet, which other state associations will not like to see.

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