Now it’s getting serious for Germany!
Five days after the federal election, larger exploratory teams from the Greens and the FDP have been sitting together since 9 a.m. It should be “first substantive questions to be deepened,” it says from the FDP.
Originally it had been said that they would not sit down until 11 a.m. and appear in front of the press at 1 p.m. The first negotiators from both parties entered the building on Budapester Strasse in Berlin at 8:30 a.m. At 8:40 a.m., FDP leader Christian Lindner also came through a side entrance.
BILD learned: Before the joint meeting at 11 a.m., the FDP and the Greens first discussed separately from each other.
After the first meeting on Tuesday evening in a small group, the parties now want to compete with teams of ten. Your mammoth task: Setting the course for a new federal government: Scholz or Laschet!
But compromises between the liberal and ecological foundations of both parties must first be found.
► For this, the Greens send a team of ten:
- the party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck
- the parliamentary group leaders Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter
- Britta Haßelmann and Michael Kellner
- Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann
- the previous Vice President of the Bundestag Claudia Roth
- Sven Giegold and Ricarda Lang.
► The FDP also has a team of ten:
- Party leader Christian Lindner
- Secretary General Volker Wissing
- Group manager Marco Buschmann,
- Nicola Beer, Johannes Vogel, Lydia Hüskens, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Michael Theurer, Harald Christ and Moritz Körner.
Whether it’s one again “Selfie of Power” will give? Afterwards (around 1 p.m.) statements by representatives of both parties are planned.
The green and yellow team will surely have followed the switches of the CSU presidium with one ear.
CSU General Secretary Markus Blume (46) said in a statement after the meeting: “The main message is: We are ready for Jamaica.” One is ready for quick, concentrated and compact discussions.
The parties would also have to look for compromises, but this should not lead to a “fundamental shift in coordinate systems”. A clear message from Blume to the negotiators of the citrus coalition: “I am firmly convinced that Jamaica has clear advantages over a traffic light”.
Germans mostly for the “traffic light”
The parties eligible for government have agreed further meetings for Sunday and next Tuesday. On Sunday afternoon, the SPD and FDP will meet first. On Sunday evening, the Union and the FDP as well as the SPD and the Greens will talk to each other. A meeting of the Union and the Greens is planned for next Tuesday.
Regarding the date for exploratory talks between CDU, CSU and FDP, which was initially discussed on Saturday and then set for Sunday, Union parliamentary group vice Carsten Linnemann says: “Whether it is on Saturday or Sunday, (…) does not matter in the end.” CSU boss Markus Söder is right: “The probability that there will be a traffic light is not only obvious, but is very large,” says the CDU politician on ARD.
The SPD won the election, one has to admit that. “We lost.” But you need 50 percent in the Bundestag to become Chancellor. The government mandate lies with the SPD. However, if the traffic lights do not agree, a Jamaica coalition could of course also be formed.
► And that is also the opinion of the population: According to the new German trend for the ARD “-Morgenmagazin” from infratest dimap, more than half of the Germans surveyed (51 percent) are in favor of a traffic light alliance, whereas only 18 percent are for Jamaica.
And: A majority of Germans are calling for Armin Laschet (60) to resign from the CDU chairmanship. Two thirds of the respondents are of this opinion, as the WDR announced on Friday. 60 percent of his own party supporters also think that he should resign.
It looks much better for SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz (63): 50 percent of all respondents consider him a good chancellor.
Scholz told the “Spiegel” on Friday: The central prerequisite for the new federal government is a cooperation between the parties that is characterized by trust. “A lesson from normal life: real affection arises when you get involved seriously,” said Scholz.
“You should never conduct negotiations in such a way that you constantly threaten that you could do something else,” said Scholz. “You have to compete as a coalition with the claim to be re-elected in the next elections.” That will “only work if all coalition partners in the joint government find their ideas”.
The SPD had become the strongest force in the federal election with 25.7 percent of the vote. The union made up of the CDU and CSU came in at 24.1 percent, which is the worst result in its history.
Frustration with the CSU and FDP
According to BILD information, there is a “complete lack of understanding” at the CSU about the CDU’s negotiating team, which wants to come with ten people. Big teams didn’t lead to success last time. It is said that you need lean teams in explorations.
The CSU starts talking with five people on Sunday at 6.30 p.m. In addition to Söder, Blume and regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt (51), party vice-president Dorothee Bär (43) and regional group manager Stefan Müller (46) arrive.
Broadside against CDU and CSU from the FDP: The liberals are “almost desperate”, as one of the party leaders says, because “we don’t know who to negotiate with on the Union side”.
After the election bankruptcy, Armin Laschet is considered difficult to convey to the general public. “We lack a clear contact person – and an alternative to Armin Laschet in the Union that is legitimized and highly regarded to claim the position of chancellor.”
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