"Anne Will" to GroKo: "Balance neat, image bad, election results even worse"

If anyone was irritated: No, that was not a program from the canning as end of October with Markus Lanz. "Halftime for the GroKo - achieved a lot, missed a lot?", Anne Will asked and thus, how long the coalition still holds out. Jupp, we had everything last week already, same place, same wave. Worse: That was now the sixth - in numbers: 6! - Polittalk in a row, which grappled on the GroKo question, the basic pension and profiling of CDU / SPD.

So it means: Again, only CDU and SPD sat like in a perpetual high-noon finale, garnished by journalists and Co. In the current cast: here the Union's chairman and defense minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, there the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister and currently interim SPD leader Malu Dreyer. All around, "World" Editor-in-Chief Dagmar Rosenfeld and SZ Parliamentary Office Director Nico Fried. And the political scientist Herfried Münkler, who seemed to have lost the inclination to look far away, gladly until the Thirty Years' War, or at least Montaigne, that evening.

Herfried Münkler sees deficiencies in the appearance of the Federal Government: "The Grand Coalition has a decent balance, but it can not represent," says the political scientist at #AnneWill. #GroKo pic.twitter.com/PC0yQkRC83

If we know everything, it would be easier to wave it off, then switch it over, but in the ZDF crime thriller "Trapped", "Captive" just think back to GroKo, box out. An error. Because there was something new - but only in the last third of the show. When suddenly power strategies became visible as rare.

Sure, the round talked about the freshly aborted land rent: "a great socio-political milestone for our country" (Dreyer). Of course it is worthwhile to look at cracking point details like the double contribution, says Nico Fried. Clearly also the half-time balance appeared, but rather in passing. As self-flagellation slogan: "Balance is neat, image is bad and election results even worse," said Dreyer. And as the basis for a GroKo mood test: "It is a specialty of this coalition that compromises feel like defeats," Rosenfeld said. But, Nico Fried said: "Hach, if I hear with what enthusiasm the two women speak all this, then it could become something".

Profiling until it becomes gaga

Already sent so that half-time balance and the Grundrenten finale thanks to the postponed balance sheet date about the same time crawled over the finish line. "With that, in my view, the half-time balance of the GroKo is rounded, and perfectly rounded," CSU and Bayern boss Markus Söder had previously formulated at the Grundrenten press conference. There were phases, as one would have reunited at the time of this Grundrentendebatte incidentally a country.

Or, as "World" chief Dagmar Rosenfeld put it: "Forming a coalition and profiling at the same time rarely leads to good government work." The interim chairmen also profiled until it was gaga: "This is still important to me," said one, "I would like to attach," the other. And that would be the bright strategy game of the evening. Because at CDU like SPD in early December there are existential party congresses, which are about the program and thus about people, about people and thus about the program.

Malu Dreyer: "We are really on the ground as a party"

"We can not criticize all the time, the #CDU has not discussed too much in recent years, now discussions are being announced at the convention and then it is being discussed as if it is the downfall of the CDU," says @akk. Anne Will. pic.twitter.com/uVkjMDisAX

Anne Will slammed the Volts for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer: from Junge Union boss Tilman Kuban; Secretary-General Paul Ziemiak; from the side grader Friedrich Merz. The head of the CDU explained almost grinning, how great if Merz did his job "for a programmatic sharpening", just from the debate. "As long as we guide them so that the opponent does not sit in their own party, it is no harm to the party". As if it were the Federal Assembly of the Greens. As if you finally knew something about her leadership style.

Next level: the charge If-Then questions to Malu Dreyer. What if the Pro-GroKo team Scholz / Geywitz wins the election for the party presidency, but the party congress voted for the end of the government? Or the other way? What if the result is crystal clear? What if the party executive ignores the presidency's recommendation? "We are really on the ground as a party," said Malu Dreyer, as one who has nothing to lose anyway, since the summer, one asks oneself: "How is it going now?". For legitimacy she pushed again and again "The history of this coalition in quick run" one. Rightly heard that the party congress can vote in early December indirectly on the GroKo, yes, they trust fully on the reason of their party, no, they also do not know what to do in the event of scarce result. "We do not have much to lose anymore."

"The # GroKo debate has shown us that, despite a clear membership vote, peace has not actually arrived on this issue," says Malu Dreyer at #AnneWill about the SPD members' decision to re-enter a grand coalition. pic.twitter.com/5vpdn57TfG

A proposal arrived at the audience

"Thus, all the prerequisites have been created that the party splits again," said Herfried Münkler, incidentally SPD member. It's crazy to talk nicely about the procedure with the candidate tour: "Then watch a thriller, if you need tension." - "We have our fun," known SZ journalist Nico Fried, and apropos, he has a proposal with scarce result: "Franziska Giffey as a compromise candidate." Although he has clearly copied himself from Merkel's EU-von-der-Leyen-Rochade, but the audience applauded immediately.

Remained open: Why the coalition so "record-breaking" have worked, but no one has noticed. Certainly because of broadcasts like this. Because the public-law discourse again and again suggests that we only have to circle around our appropriateness. As if there is nothing more urgent. Small list of recent days: the newly established political EU, the state of NATO, the current protests in South America, the war in northern Syria and, second, what about the climate?

The party congresses are over in four weeks. The tally for the Polittalks is ready.

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