The SPD is partly in the lead in current polls on the federal election and wants to continue to govern - in a traffic light coalition?
That could be difficult.
Berlin - These days politicians have something in common with drivers.
Some are more enthusiastic, others less - and that is about a traffic light.
The color scheme in particular seems to be decisive for the respective mood.
Who sets the tone?
Red, yellow or green?
A not inconsiderable difference.
In road traffic as well as in politics, where a so-called traffic light coalition is still being discussed.
Bundestag election: Scholz up front in polls - "Chancellorship has become very accessible"
In view of the current election polls, the SPD is unusually happy to talk about the current situation.
When the Social Democrats saw miserable approval ratings not so long ago, the Willy Brandt House emphasized that they did not want to overinterpret the situation.
Now it is said of the Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz: “A change of government, a departure in Germany is possible.
A chancellorship from a Social Democrat has now become very achievable. ",
For the current finance minister, the survey results are "very touching, because they also conceal the citizens' growing approval of me as a person." and Annalena Baerbock (Greens) lies.
Nonetheless, the SPD can seriously think about the future government.
A coalition without the unpopular union from Groko's times?
Conceivable.
A traffic light alliance with an SPD chancellor could sound very lucrative for the Social Democrats.
But do the other parties play along at all?
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In the spotlight: SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is currently looking at good poll numbers.
© Ronny Hartmann / AFP
Bundestag election: FDP lacks "imagination" for traffic lights - "extremely unlikely"
A tripartite alliance with the Greens and the FDP might be an option after the federal election. The former are not averse to traffic lights, but want to go to the Chancellery themselves. And the FDP? The reacts extremely cautiously to the current traffic light hype of the red ones. It was “nice” if Scholz wanted to take “small steps in a more sensible and pragmatic direction”, said Vice-Party Leader Wolfang Kubicki of the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
. Nevertheless, an alliance with the SPD and the Greens is "extremely unlikely".
"The person Olaf Scholz" would not be an "insurmountable coalition hurdle" for the Free Democrats, Kubicki said.
But the ideas “especially in tax policy” diverged very widely.
The decisive factor is “what is actually in a coalition agreement”.
FDP leader Christian Lindner recently announced that he lacked the "imagination" for a traffic light alliance.
The decisive question of the election campaign is anyway what influence his party will have.
Will the FDP become a chancellor maker?
Bundestag election: FDP skeptical about traffic lights - "if it doesn't work with the Kretschmann Greens ..."
The FDP parliamentary group vice-president in the Bundestag, Michael Theurer, also considers a traffic light coalition to be very unlikely. "The mood in the FDP is such that a traffic light would not be easy, if not too big a risk," said the Baden-Württemberg FDP chairman of the German press agency. The differences in economic and financial policy are "huge".
The failure of a possible traffic light in the southwest with Green Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann in the spring was a serious setback.
Theurer said: "In the FDP, many ask: If the Kretschmann-Greens don't work, how should things go with the Federal Greens?" From Theurer's point of view, a traffic light with Scholz at the top would theoretically be easier than with Baerbock.
"However, Scholz embodies a direction that has nothing to do with the rest of the SPD," said the FDP man.
Bundestag election: Scholz advertises traffic lights - and approaches the FDP
Scholz seems to be aware of the uncertainty of the FDP and is now publicly advertising traffic lights. In the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
he explicitly did not rule out a traffic light and promised the liberals fair treatment after the federal election and in possible coalition negotiations. The negotiations for a Jamaica coalition also collapsed in 2017 because "the Union and the Greens had not tried very hard before to achieve a real three-way alliance," said Scholz. They had “ultimately negotiated with each other and only intended the FDP to play a minor role”.
Meanwhile, there are points of contact between the two parties, for example in the - admittedly less heavily weighted - drug policy. Both the FDP and the SPD (as well as the Greens and the Left) want to legalize cannabis. Only the Union is currently blocking - although its drug commissioner would be quite open to reforms.
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