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Julia Klöckner (CDU): "This is a problem for the democratic structure"
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HANNIBAL HANSCHKE / REUTERS
Manuela Schwesig and the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are planning a red-red coalition with the left.
Leading politicians from the CDU and CSU do not think much of it.
The deputy federal chairwoman of the CDU, Julia Klöckner, said: "The fact that the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania wants to form a coalition with the left, whose chairman was probably an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security, leaves one amazed at the SPD's forgetting of history."
The chairman of the Left in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is Torsten Koplin.
In the GDR he served in the military guard regiment "Feliks Dzierżyński" of the State Security Service in Berlin.
After this full-time activity, according to an earlier report by the Stasi inspection commission of the state parliament, he later entered into an unofficial collaboration.
He himself had already confessed to his past several times.
Nevertheless, there could be no more talk of the political center, said Klöckner.
"It is becoming increasingly clear that Ms. Schwesig's uncritical orientation towards Russia should now be manifested with such a coalition."
"That is a problem for the democratic structure and the cohesion of society," said Klöckner.
CSU sees a "tight left course"
CSU General Secretary Markus Blume also criticized the SPD.
He accused the party of a "strict left-wing course" on Twitter.
Schwesig was "promoting the SED successors to government posts without need," he tweeted.
"That makes it clear: if the SPD has a choice, it flashes to the far left."
From 1998 to 2006 the SPD had already ruled in the northeast together with the PDS / Die Linke as a junior partner.
The alliance, forged against the will of the Federal SPD, was the first red-red state government in Germany to spark discussions.
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