Start of the explorations after the Berlin election: No space for Instagram

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BerlinInstagram selfies? No, such productions can be done by others. The leading Berlin state politicians on Friday at the start of the first exploratory talks after the election, on the other hand, were emphatically serious and hardworking.

Striking nurses from Charité and Vivantes were on their feet particularly early on Friday morning. They had gathered at 8 a.m. in front of the Berlin SPD headquarters in Wedding to give the explorers their demands once again: more money for Charité and the state-owned hospital group Vivantes, thus a relief collective agreement with better working conditions and the application of the collective agreement for the public service (TVöD) for the Vivantes subsidiaries. Scanned it sounded like this: “TVöD for everyone on the Spree”. There has been a strike for three weeks.

Shortly after half past eight, Interior Senator Andreas Geisel stepped out of a dark limousine, a few minutes later SPD top candidate Franziska Giffey and her co-party leader Raed Saleh from the Kurt-Schumacher-Haus stepped onto the street. Her first route led her unerringly to the other side of the street, where the strikers had gathered.

Giffey assured the Verdi delegation that “the subject will of course also play a role in today’s talks”. It was not much more specific. Only this much: “I hope that we will finally be ready next week.”

Each conversation lasts five hours – and it continues next week

Whatever the designated new governing mayor meant exactly, it was certainly not the formation of a government. The parties are still at the very beginning of a tough process, for which some key data have been agreed: on this Friday, the leaders of the election victorious SPD met with the Greens under the motto “old coalition first” and then with the left in the afternoon . On Monday the SPD wants to speak to the CDU and the FDP. Each individual interview is scheduled to last five hours.

From this sequence one can read out a predefinition of a “business as usual”, but it will not be that easy. In the election campaign one had worked hard. Franziska Giffey repeatedly occupied bourgeois positions in building and transport policy in order to distance herself from the Greens and the left – and was insulted and demonized by them for this. They have “concrete in their head” and “gasoline in their blood,” it was said. Giffey, it seemed, was suddenly the main opponent. Campaigns like #GiffeyVerhiegen were trending on social media.

Franziska Giffey heard the abuse very well. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, she said that the Greens “have to be a little careful. You still have to be able to look yourself in the face after the elections ”.

It is now “after the elections” and the Greens are giving the impression that there is no problem “looking each other in the face” at all. At the start of the explorations, co-party leader Werner Graf is clearly confident that he will be able to form a red-red-green coalition again – only this time with green in second position. “If you put the election programs and the party programs next to each other, you can see that the greatest overlaps are between red, green, red,” he said on Friday morning on the RBB information radio. “That is why we are very optimistic that we will get together there.”

What should he say? Right from the start, the Greens decided on a continuation, thereby depriving themselves of any alternative. So no chance for an Instagram picture with Sebastian Czaja and Co.

The SPD is different. Giffey and Saleh have so far avoided any coalition statement. It is now a matter of implementing a maximum of many social democratic positions. Now you sound out with whom it works best. Such statements can be found clever, or professional.

Luck in misfortune: SPD negotiating member reports on bicycle accident

A few minutes after Giffey and Saleh, the Green delegation around the failed top candidate Bettina Jarasch arrived at the negotiation site on Friday morning. When they saw the Social Democrats among the strikers, they too immediately looked for the way there. They too wanted to show solidarity. Jarasch says: “I’ll make it short. We will find a solution.”

Also a staging.

Then there was finally the group picture of the negotiators. As planned, MP Ina Czyborra was also there for the SPD. The night before, she had a bicycle accident in which she was apparently lucky. She wrote on Twitter: “Yesterday evening my project save CO2 and do something for my fitness was suddenly ended by a right turn. Bike scrap and bruises everywhere. Everything that is vital, but safe. ”She also showed a photo of a hugely bent bicycle.

Together with her parliamentary colleague Iris Spranger and the three party big shots Giffey, Saleh and Geisel, Czyborra formed the SPD’s exploratory quintet. That means concentrated government experience (Giffey was federal minister for four years, Geisel has been a senator in Berlin for ten years, Spranger was state secretary of finance for five years) plus Czyborra and the party and parliamentary leader, Saleh, who was washed up in parliament.

3: 5 – The Greens accept an unusual imbalance in the negotiating delegations

The result was a not only numerical imbalance with the Greens, the three of whom came to the talks. Bettina Jarasch – herself more likely to be found in the back seats of the House of Representatives for four years before she was unexpectedly named the top candidate in autumn last year – was supported by her party leaders Nina Stahr and Werner Graf. Both are not very hardened in their daily confrontations with politicians from other parties. Quite different from the two parliamentary group leaders Antje Kapek and Silke Gebel or as Senator for Economic Affairs and Mayor Ramona Pop. But the Greens committed themselves to the Jarasch / Stahr / Graf trio early on.

The leftists, who showed up at the SPD headquarters in the late afternoon, were completely different. The top candidate, Senator for Culture and Mayor Klaus Lederer not only had party leader Katina Schubert and state manager Sebastian Koch at his side, but also, of course, the double-headed parliamentary group Anne Helm / Carsten Schatz. There is no more power in the party.

Berliner Zeitung / Paulus Ponizak

Also a production: SPD boss Raed Saleh, the designated governing mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) and Bettina Jarasch (Greens) in the morning on the way to exploratory talks in the Kurt-Schumacher-Haus.

Even more number games: five lefts – and no six-pack!

The left came along very relaxed. When asked how they intended to eat for the next five hours, Lederer said that they “haven’t got a six-pack yet”, but with a view of Müllerstrasse this should not be “a problem in this area”.

In the middle of this chat, the Social Democrats opened the door of their party headquarters from within. When Giffey heard what was being joked about, she said, “You don’t need to bring anything. Our guests get something to drink and something to eat. ”Lederer was able to feel confirmed in his“ positive expectation ”that he had previously expressed.

And what about the content?

So that was already settled. But what about the content? What has been talked about? Was there a quarrel? And if so, on which topics?

They had “constructive discussions in a pleasant atmosphere,” said Franziska Giffey and Andreas Geisel after the conversation with the Greens, independently of one another, in almost identical diction.

But a little something leaked through: At least the Greens and Social Democrats had talked about “all relevant issues”, it was said from the environment of the negotiating delegations. So there is obviously no fixed prioritization.

But there is obviously a need for further discussion. At least a second appointment for the coming week has already been agreed with the Greens.

There is still a little time left. The explorations are expected to be completed next weekend, after which formal coalition negotiations could begin. The new House of Representatives is to be constituted on November 4th and then elect the new Senate by December 16th at the latest.

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