Joe Chialo remains Senator for Culture after all: A lame duck for Berlin – Commentary

Joe Chialo won't be Minister of State for Culture after all. His work in Berlin is already being done by others. What will he do as Senator for Culture until the new elections?
Now he won't be the one after all: For several weeks, Berlin's Senator for Culture, Joe Chialo, was considered a given to succeed Claudia Roth as Minister of State for Culture, but since Monday it's been confirmed that someone else will be the new appointee. Not Saxon Bundestag member Christiane Schenderlein, whose name had been circulating for some time, but journalist Wolfgang Weimer . A surprising decision that has some Chialo critics in the cultural sector sighing like the princess in the fairy tale of King Thrushbeard: Oh, if only Chialo had been the better choice. How did that happen?

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