Now it’s time to get down to business!
Today the SPD, Greens and FDP start their coalition negotiations. Goal: to set up the first traffic light government at federal level, with Olaf Scholz (63, SPD) as Federal Chancellor!
And the traffic light is planning: Nicholas brings us an Advent Chancellor!
▶ ︎A coalition agreement with the SPD and the Greens should be in place by the end of November, said FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing (51) at a joint press conference BEFORE the start of negotiations with SPD General Lars Klingbeil (43) and Michael Kellner (44, Greens).
▶ ︎ The new Federal Chancellor should then be elected in the week from December 6th. That is “ambitious and ambitious.”
A detail: If Olaf Scholz (63, SPD) is elected Chancellor between December 6 and 10, Angela Merkel (67, CDU) will miss Helmut Kohl’s († 87) all-time record by a few days. She would only have to stay in office until December 17th to overtake Kohl as the longest incumbent.
The Schedule
Next Wednesday, the specialist politicians are to begin their work in 22 working groups on a joint government program. The working groups should then meet for discussions almost every day, with the exception of the weekends.
SPD General Lars Klingbeil (43) declared: The 22 working groups wanted to “work out a paper by November 10th”.
The final editing and the clarification of the questions that have not yet been resolved should then be taken over by the main negotiating group, which should present a coalition agreement by the end of November.
The result then has to be confirmed within the party – at a special party congress for the FDP, and in the form of a digital membership survey for the Greens.
Photo: Britta Pedersen / dpa
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The main negotiators and six high-ranking representatives from each party will meet with the heads of the working groups for the hour at the Berlin Exhibition Center (Hub 24).
A total of 22 working groups with specialist politicians are to negotiate the details of a coalition agreement from Wednesday.
But although preliminary sounding and sounding have already been carried out, there are still obstacles!
BILD explains which sticking points still threaten Zoff.
Financial policy
An additional amount of 50 billion euros per year for climate protection, digitization and education is under discussion. BUT: Taxes should NOT be increased, the debt brake should continue to be adhered to. So other ways of financing (and tricks) have to be found.
Fight for the car
In addition, the partners want to put “climate-damaging subsidies” to the test. There is likely to be a heated argument about what that is supposed to mean. The room includes the “diesel privilege” (in green jargon), ie the lower taxation of diesel fuel, as well as the tax exemption for kerosene and tax advantages for company cars. The purchase premium for electric cars could be concentrated on purely battery-powered vehicles and no longer also on plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Explosive: Many citizens would soon feel this in their wallets – similar to a tax increase.
Climate protection
The SPD, Greens and FDP have already struck a few pegs in the expansion of renewable energies, for example with a solar roof requirement for new commercial buildings and an accelerated phase-out of coal, which “ideally” should succeed by 2030.
▶︎ Problem: The Green Youth and other radical climate protectors like “Fridays For Future” do not go far enough with the proposals. And: There is also likely to be resistance from the federal states with coal mining areas.
BILD coalition reporter Kira Ortmann at the Greens knows: When it comes to climate, the Greens negotiators now want to really step up!
Energy prices
▶︎ Problem: The rapid rise in gas and petrol prices caught the budding coalitioners on the wrong foot.
It is true that it is undisputed between the three parties that energy prices should rise because of their steering effect on consumers. But in the election campaign this was always linked with the promise to create social equilibrium.
Now prices are rising significantly before any relief can even be decided, since lowering the EEG surcharge by a few cents does not help either. At the latest when the liter of gasoline should exceed the psychologically important two-euro mark in the next few days, the SPD, Greens and FDP should really take action.
Migration
This topic is gaining momentum again due to the high number of migrants on the German-Polish border. And it holds potential for the specifically asylum-friendly Greens!
Corona
▶ ︎ Zoff potential: The FDP position is clear: “The epidemic situation of national importance must end now,” says the health policy spokeswoman for the parliamentary group, Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus. The Greens are completely different: They had long supported the tough stance of the Chancellery in the pandemic, want to continue to wear masks and other rules.
According to traffic light circles, there is still no agreement between the three parties.
Item allocation
Last but not least: the distribution of items is already like an elephant in the room. At least the key position of finance minister has already been publicly debated. Politicians from the FDP and the Greens had brought their respective party leaders Christian Lindner and Robert Habeck into play.
And: SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz had always emphasized during the election campaign that his cabinet would be made up of equal numbers of women and men. That is “not a sure-fire success”, warned Baerbock.
These points have already been clarified
The Ampel partners have already overcome these hurdles with their twelve-page exploratory paper:
- The statutory minimum wage is supposed to rise once to twelve euros per hour.
- Hartz IV is to be replaced by a citizen’s benefit.
- The voting age for the Bundestag and European Parliament is to be reduced to 16 years.
- 400,000 new apartments are targeted every year.
- There should be no pension cuts, and the retirement age will not be raised.
- The plan is to start partially funded the statutory pension.
- There will NOT be a speed limit on motorways.
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