Is it possible in Germany without the Greens?
Reiner Haseloff actually does it, he will rule with the SPD and FDP in the future.
And in the Bund, Armin Laschet would like to imitate him.
A comment by Georg Anastasiadis.
Many a political creature has seen the light of day in the witch's kitchen in Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1990 the country has been ruled by five different party constellations: from Christian-Liberal to Red-Green, an SPD minority government tolerated by the PDS, a grand coalition to a Kenya alliance of CDU, SPD and Greens. If everything goes well, the country will now start the sixth government experiment - the black-red-yellow “Germany coalition” made up of CDU, SPD and FDP under Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff. Something like this last happened 62 years ago, back then in Saarland and Bremen.
After the CDU and FDP, the SPD has now also consented to the start of coalition negotiations. Two months before the general election, the Magdeburg signal is causing some excitement in the federal government, especially among the Greens. So far you have been set as a government partner, whether in a black-green alliance, a Jamaica coalition, a traffic light or green-red-red. For the Greens, the existence of a strategic alternative to their participation in government means less bargaining power. The German coalition, which would also have a majority in the Bundestag, offers the CDU, CSU, SPD and FDP an additional power option. That makes them attractive for everyone involved.
Nevertheless, the hurdles for black-red-yellow, which would be an alliance of four in the federal government, are high. It would be hairy for the CSU, which, in purely mathematical terms, would probably not be needed for this. The SPD, on the other hand, is accused of helping the bourgeois camp made up of the Union and the FDP to gain power. On the other hand, her candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz knows only too well that going into the opposition would conjure up his political end and the takeover of power by the left party around ex-Jusochef Kevin Kühnert. The SPD - or what was left of it - would then have to watch as the Greens establish themselves on the side of the Union as a new progressive government and people's party.