The designated SPD chairman Norbert Walter Borjans insists on concessions of the coalition partner. He considers the grand coalition in the long run not for the right combination, Walter-Borjans said in view of the alliance with CDU and CSU in the ARD program "Report from Berlin" on Sunday. "But we're in it, and on that basis we have to say what to do now, and if there's a blockade on the part of the coalition partner for these new tasks, then you have to make the decision that it does not go on."
Among other things, he referred to climate protection in the ARD program. After the climate package should not be rejected. There has to be further progress, there must be more effective means of protecting the climate, and above all, there must be socially just design. " He also referred to the need for investment, such as infrastructure. "And there are things to do that are not stable in the long run, if you stick to the black zero."
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His designated co-chair Saskia Esken stressed in the show, since the negotiation of the coalition agreement, a lot has changed in Germany. "And on this basis you can negotiate new projects, which is clearly in the coalition agreement in it."
The SPD members have appointed Walter Borjans and Eskenzum the party's new leadership duo. At the beginning of Friday starting SPD party congress they still have to be confirmed by the delegates. A decision on the continuation of the coalition with the CDU and CSU, however, would not fall there, said Esken.
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Instead, they wanted to discuss "how we should proceed in the coming weeks and months". It is also possible that the party congress initially issued a mandate that one should negotiate with the Union and then make a decision as party executive. Neither the grand coalition nor an exit should be an end in itself.
CDU and CSU have ruled out a renegotiation of the coalition agreement and made it clear that they want to continue the government.
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