Disclaimer: my estimate that Platzeck has a future shall not be read as recommendation. I'm unsure whether he is worth the hype - he only gained popularity for (like Schröder a few years later) his media presence during the catastrophic flood on the Oder river at the Polish border (when he was only provincial environment minister), and is said to be lazy at job.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}