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Reactions to the SPD party congress: After the dispute is before the dispute

2019-12-08T04:35:52.062Z


The new SPD tip wants to talk to the coalition partner before Christmas. The anticipation of this is noticeably limited within the Union.



The new SPD leaders Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter Borjans reckon that there will be soon after the party's first talks with the coalition partner Union. "We have signaled readiness to talk, we have received congratulations from various directions," said Esken on Saturday in Berlin at a joint performance with Walter-Borjans. "That's why I'm confident that we'll be in talks soon." Certainly this will happen before Christmas.

The dialogue should not be easy. CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has already hinted at which topics it should hook considerably. Esken and Walter-Borjans had announced that they wanted to rewrite the climate package. The given Kramp-Karrenbauer a rejection.

"There is an agreement with the SPD in the government and in the Bundestag, which we have negotiated for a long time," said the CDU chief of "Bild am Sonntag". "We can not start from scratch again, time is short."

In the leading motion adopted at the congress, the SPD demands a higher CO2 price and better social compensation in the climate package. The CO2 price has already been decided by the Bundestag and the Bundesrat and is not part of the conciliation procedure.

Issue ground rent and investment package

With regard to an investment package demanded by the SPD, Kramp-Karrenbauer said: "There is no shortage of money, for as long as the funds are not called up for the digital pact school, it makes no sense to take in billions more than anything we owe anywhere have to park. "

The basic pension compromise will not come when the SPD leaves the grand coalition of the Union and the SPD. "The ultimate hard-earned compromise on basic pensions is a joint project of this government and its parliamentary majority," said Kramp-Karrenbauer. "In the Bundestag the Grundrentengesetz comes only when it is clear that it will give the government, which developed this compromise, also in the future." This is not blackmail. "This is perfectly normal and has been discussed in the coalition committee."

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Among other things, the new SPD Vice Kevin Kühnert spoke of blackmail: "We are in a contractual relationship with the Union and I think it is also necessary not to enter into blackmail with conversations," said Kühnert on the sidelines of the congress. The SPD had not decided the new welfare state concept in the expectation "that in two months is government policy". Most of it will be part of the next election campaign.

The SPD accuses Kramp-Karrenbauer at present, "that they take the Grundrente just in hostage for the continuation of the Grand Coalition," said Kühnert. "We do not want to respond by the same means and take issues in hostages to extract concessions from them, so you do not deal with each other."

Esken and Walter Borjans want to make their mark with the party congress decisions on social policy stronger against the Union. From the party congress go out the signal that the SPD wants to argue "less out of the coalition than as an independent political force," said Esken.

"There is no land to rule with a man"

Walter-Borjans added that decisions on the welfare state and demands for massive investment, especially at the local level, should make it clear where the SPD stands. "I'm sure the coalition partner will not be able to ignore such convincing arguments." They now want to clarify in an interview with the Union, what should be done quickly and immediately.

Greens boss Annalena Baerbock accused the SPD, the country by their unclear attitude to stay in the Grand Coalition to expect another hanging party. At the SPD federal party conference, it would have "a clear signal needed," Baerbock said Saturday the news agency AFP in Berlin. The question is: "Will the SPD continue to govern - yes or no, and if so, it must do it with all its might." Before a reply, the SPD but pressed: "That did not happen."

She now fears that the Union and the SPD "will clash even more in their respective profiling and continue to operate in crisis mode," said Baerbock. "It would take a coalition that is willing to solve such urgent tasks, and there is no country to rule with a Jew."

Source: spiegel

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