Coalition poker: Scholz 'SPD intervenes after Habeck coup - but plan with Söder could torpedo traffic lights

The Greens and the FDP have it in their hands: Which party do you support in their plan to appoint the Chancellor?

The SPD is leading the way, there are new ideas in the Union.

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• It is still unclear which coalition Germany will soon lead.

  The SPD * is now

  taking

  a step forward

  (see first report).

• Greens * boss Habeck wants to orientate himself in negotiations on previous talks from Schleswig-Holstein

  (update from September 28, 11:18 a.m.).

• Apparently there are efforts in the Union that Söder still plays the central role

  (see update from September 28, 12.20 p.m.).

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Update from September 28, 12.20 p.m.:

Even before the election, there was always speculation as to whether CSU boss Markus Söder * could still become chancellor - despite defeat by Armin Laschet in the chancellor candidate ring.

This topic could become virulent surprisingly quickly: In parts of the Union there are evidently efforts to urge Söder to negotiate “Jamaica” with the Greens and the FDP.

This is how the

editorial network Germany

wants to

know.

If the talks are successful, Söder could also be chancellor, the report said.

Signs of readiness have already been identified in the Union - for example, that Söder did not demand to join the opposition on election evening.

In this way, the CSU boss kept an option of power open, according to one interpretation.

Who rules Germany: SPD boss open to party members vote on coalition agreement

Update from September 28, 11.25 a.m.:

The SPD chairman Norbert Walter-Borjans is open to the possibility of having party members vote on a coalition agreement. “A member survey is an option,” he told the newspapers of the

Funke media group

. The form of participation will be decided in the course of negotiations. "In any case, the membership cannot be expected to have to swallow important decisions made by the top and not be allowed to have a say."

The party leader turned against speculation that Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz was running on the SPD's leash.

According to the Basic Law, the Federal Chancellor determines the guidelines for politics.

"That is a great creative power." Walter-Borjans literally: "The story that Olaf Scholz will be kept on a leash by the party after the election is completely unrealistic."

Coalitions after the federal election: Habeck also comments on “balcony photos” from 2017

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Robert Habeck, head of the Greens, after a press conference on Monday

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Update from September 28, 11:18 a.m.:

According to Greens boss Robert Habeck, talks about a new federal government should be as discreet as possible. “Balcony photos” like four years ago should also be avoided. "That is a lesson from the failed Jamaica negotiations in 2017 and vice versa from the successful talks in Schleswig-Holstein," Habeck told the

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung

. The SPD parliamentary group chairman had already taken up this issue and distributed it

(see first report).

Information from the federal government's “Jamaica” explorations in 2017, which ultimately failed, had continuously leaked to the public.

Habeck pleaded in the newspaper that negotiations between his party and the FDP should be based on the course of the “Jamaica” coalition rounds in Schleswig-Holstein: “At that time, the question was also: What can we actually do well together?

And it wasn't about what separates the parties. ”According to Habeck, at the“ Jamaica ”negotiations in 2017 in the federal government, the people involved were asked to write down the list of separating points.

That could not work, stressed the Greens boss.

Regarding the goal formulated by the SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz of concluding the negotiations this year, Habeck said: “I share the ambition to have a government by Christmas.” For this reason, he does not want to comment on what, when Conversations are held.

Coalition poker: Scholz's SPD intervenes after the Habeck coup - and warns the Greens and FDP very clearly

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Olaf Scholz (l.), SPD candidate for chancellor, and Rolf Mützenich, chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, come to the first parliamentary group meeting of the SPD after the general election.

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First report from September 28th:

Berlin - Even after the federal election *, many questions remain unanswered.

The SPD ended up ahead of the Union in the preliminary results, but CDU leader Armin Laschet can still imagine becoming chancellor.

That would be possible with a “Jamaica coalition”, but the SPD won't let him go that easily.

After the federal election in 2021: “Chancellor makers” Greens and FDP - Now the SPD is intervening

While the parties in the front seats are arguing, the Greens and the FDP are already throwing the balls back and forth. You are considered to be the “Chancellor Makers” after this election. The Greens and the FDP initially wanted to hold talks * with one another to explore common ground - a rather unusual coup that party leaders Christian Lindner and Robert Habeck seem to have worked out *. According to information from the

Spiegel

, these talks should start on Wednesday.

Even at the “elephant round” on ARD and ZDF on the evening of the election, the audience got the impression that those present Laschet and CSU boss Markus Söder were courting Christian Lindner (FDP) and partly Annalena Baerbock (Greens).

SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz * did not intervene.

But he made it clear at a press conference on Monday: “There are three parties with which progress can be made: the SPD, the Greens and the FDP.” And further: “If they get together, it can be something good.

It depends on bringing this together constructively. "

Bundestag election: SPD wants coalition with the Greens and FDP - invitation to exploratory talks

And now the SPD is taking its step: According to parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich, the first exploratory talks between the Social Democrats and the Greens and the FDP could be held this week. "Greens and FDP have been invited by us to conduct exploratory talks with us this week, if they want," said Mützenich on Tuesday before a parliamentary group meeting with the previous and newly elected members of the Bundestag *. "We are ready to have not only quick, but also reliable discussions," emphasized Mützenich.

The questions of red lines in the conversations, i.e. non-negotiable content, do not arise at the moment.

Important content for the SPD would be minimum wages, living space and a renovation in view of the climate crisis.

"But we will not hold coalition negotiations in public," Mützenich emphasized.

Coalitions in Germany: SPD parliamentary group leader warns Greens and FDP - "drama"

The parliamentary group leader warned the Greens * and FDP * to display a different style of talks than after the previous election in 2017. “I think both parties have to be clear about the fact that the drama they were here four years ago sometimes Graduated on balconies did not do the job, ”he said.

One or the other is apparently already thinking about "where in the government, in which armchair he can take a seat".

(cibo / dpa)

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