Angela Merkel has given the job of health minister to her biggest critic, Jens Spahn, and according to a report by Reuters, Spahn does not intend to stop being the “anti-Merkel”; he will work toward a “rightward shift in the party once he becomes health minister.”

Amid growing protests against migration in Germany, Spahn is notorious for being vociferously against Merkel’s open door migration policy, stating:

Some men “in an Islamic society have to grow a beard….but homosexuals like me are thrown from a tower.”

The LGBTQ community has not collectively protested against the human rights abuses being committed against their own communities, nor against routine hate preaching by Islamic clerics against them. But Spahn is different.

Among Spahn’s other views:

He supports a burqa ban, and has “called for an ‘Islam law’ to regulate Muslim religious institutions in Germany and make their messages more transparent.”

Some German media pundits have speculated that Angela Merkel’s decision to place Spahn as health minister was made in the hope of silencing him or appeasing her detractors from within the CDU.

Her reason(s) may backfire to the benefit of Germany, since Spahn “has never concealed his ambition to become chancellor one day. Achieving a ministerial post at the age of 37 could put him firmly on the path to power.”

“’Anti-Merkel’ propelled to frontline of German politics”, by Guy Chazan, Financial Times, February 26, 2018: