The former SPD leader Martin Schulz has warned his party urgently against an exit from the grand coalition. In an internal meeting, Schulz, according to participants, opposed efforts by the comrades to end the alliance with the Union prematurely.
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"Why should I pronounce Ms. Merkel the mistrust for a coalition agreement, which I negotiated and the two-thirds of our members wanted?" Schulz said according to the agreement of several participants last Tuesday in the meeting of the SPD parliamentary group.
Schulz warned against drastic consequences: If it comes to new elections after a coalition break, "Mutti" - meant was Angela Merkel - again compete.
Then there would be a "black-green campaign against the AfD", and the SPD would be grated. The result of the Social Democrats would then be "not Brandenburg, but Saxony," Schulz said, referring to the recent state elections. In Saxony, the Social Democrats had come only to 7.7 percent.
Schulz responded with a speech to a previous speaker who stated that she did not yet know how she felt about the future of the Grand Coalition.
At the SPD party conference in December, the mid-term review of the government should be debated. But it is still unclear whether there is a vote on the whereabouts of the coalition.
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