Today the question is how the future CDU chairman should actually be determined.
It's about looking for a common traffic light project.
In addition, the AfD boss is withdrawing and the Portuguese deserve our envy.
Pure AfD
Jörg Meuthen gives up.
The professor from Baden-Württemberg does not want to run for chairman again at the AfD party conference in December.
Meuthen comes from the party's early liberal market phase and belongs to the so-called moderate forces.
"Meuthen's withdrawal is a surrender to the balance of power within the AfD - with consequences for the entire party,"
analyzes my colleague Ann-Katrin Müller.
But what does moderate mean in a partly right-wing extremist party?
And Meuthen had for a long time come to terms with Björn Höcke's völkisch-nationalist wing.
Then, a year and a half ago, the turning point: Meuthen's internal party fight against right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists in their own ranks.
In public, writes Ann-Katrin, Meuthen gave the AfD "an apparently bourgeois face."
This ghost is over now. The remains of the bourgeois facade are being dismantled, from now on there is pure AfD.
Undisguised, inedible.
Nobody should say they don't know what this party stands for.
Withdrawal of the AfD boss: Meuthen's surrender
Fab Four
The staging is in place.
While the old aunt SPD is already waiting on Monday morning at the Berlin exhibition center, the green and yellow guys come around the corner together.
Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock, Volker Wissing, Christian Lindner.
The
fab four of
these exploratory talks.
Another picture like that shared selfie the other day after the first four-person meeting.
And Habeck provides the soundtrack in a guest contribution for SPIEGEL, in which he delimits the possible new era from the Merkel era.
"We already know how they have to differ: No longer by doing nothing until the crisis escalates and only then acting, but by risking something so that the crisis does not arise." The Habeck crescendo: "No shadowy years, but years in which new things are created."
Beyond the staging skills in this early phase of a possible new government: In fact, it will be precisely that the SPD, Greens and FDP find real cooperation, instead of just entering into such classic compromises that sometimes serve one and sometimes the other.
Angela Merkel ruled this way for 16 years, which is why the grand coalition was her favorite constellation.
Not an active project, but reactive politics.
At the beginning of a legislative period, the SPD, CSU and CDU said what they would like, then they wrote it down and worked through it accordingly.
On top of that came all the crises that had to be managed.
As of now, the traffic light is nothing more than a cross-camp alliance in the classic sense:
SPD and Greens on the one hand, the FDP on the other.
And thus not dissimilar to the grand coalition.
But that will not be enough to implement the transformative reform policy that this country urgently needs, first and foremost the fight against climate change.
In
other words
:
Success in a coalition is not measured for the respective coalition party by how much of its electoral program it is able to implement; rather, success
in
a coalition is measured by the success of
the
coalition.
Therefore, the possibly future Chancellor Olaf Scholz is right: The traffic light should not be an alliance of convenience for four years, but should aim for a continuation after this time.
My colleague Michael Sauga thinks that the traffic light parties, especially the FDP and SPD, should break their promises in order to be able to achieve mutual success: “The modernization of the republic and adherence to the debt brake are logically mutually exclusive.
However, this also applies to the SPD's demand to stick to today's values for pension level and age limit, as Olaf Scholz has promised, despite all demographic calculations. "
The probing will continue today from nine o'clock.
And staged.
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New CDU
Well who would have thought?
First, the Union introduced parental allowance, set up day-care centers, suspended military service, and switched off nuclear power plants.
And now the CDU is also doing grassroots democracy?
Is nothing sacred to the conservatives anymore?
"You better start swimmin 'or you'll sink like a stone,"
wrote the Nobel Prize winner for literature Bob Dylan with a view to changing times.
The Chancellor candidate and chairman Armin Laschet, who has become the moderator of the transition, wants to bring together the more than 300 CDU district chairmen on October 30 to discuss whether a member survey on the party chairmanship is appropriate.
The federal board will then formally decide on this on November 2nd.
More basic participation - that is what more and more influential CDU people have been calling for in the past few days. Except for Wolfgang Schäuble.
He rejects this type of grassroots involvement.
But Schäuble was twice for the later defeated Friedrich Merz as party leader and then for Laschet as candidate for chancellor, who in turn failed in the federal election.
Which doesn't necessarily speak for Schäuble's political instincts.
One thing is clear: a member survey is not binding in the CDU, a party congress at the end of this year or the beginning of next year would have to understand it accordingly so that such a vote of the grassroots could be implemented.
It is a process that the SPD demonstrated when choosing its chairman duo - and it took six months.
In the CDU they scoffed at the time.
What's the name of Dylan's?
"The slow one now will later be fast."
Personnel renewal of the CDU: One is definitely going - but who is going?
Winner of the day ...
... are the Portuguese.
98 percent of the Portuguese population are now fully vaccinated over the age of twelve - one of the best vaccination rates in the world.
That is why the Portuguese are now experiencing normality and freedoms again, which we continue to deny ourselves in this country because of vaccination idleness.
It would be that easy.
The latest news from the night
Women in the CDU insist on more power and influence:
the women in the party want to have a say in the reorientation of the CDU.
Meanwhile, the polls for the Union are falling to a new low
The number of breakthroughs in vaccination has apparently risen sharply: Recently,
more people have been treated in intensive care units in Germany who have contracted Covid-19 despite being vaccinated.
According to a report, the RKI calls this development expected
More than 800 emergency services are looking for a missing eight-year-old on the border between Bavaria and the Czech Republic:
There is still no trace of the girl who disappeared on Sunday while hiking on the Cerchov mountain.
Hundreds of helpers from Germany and the Czech Republic are looking for her, even at night
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I wish you a good start to the day.
Your Sebastian Fischer