Traffic light alert!
SPD parliamentary group leader is tired of constant trouble and calls for crisis meetings
Created: 07/17/2022Updated: 07/17/2022 8:51 p.m
By: Andreas Schmid
at odds?
Olaf Scholz, Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner in the Bundestag.
© Michael Kappeler/dpa
It crackles in Berlin.
Again and again.
The traffic light government is divided on crucial issues.
SPD parliamentary group leader Müller calls for a crisis retreat.
Berlin - Energy, climate, traffic, Corona: In many current debates, the traffic light coalition is at odds.
A government partner proposes something, another - usually the FDP - intervenes.
The pattern is currently often the same.
A few examples: SPD Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants more money for Hartz IV, the FDP says no.
The FDP wants a lifetime extension for nuclear power plants, the SPD and especially the Greens are strictly against it.
The FDP pushed through the tank discount, the Greens then demanded an excess profit tax in vain.
The SPD-led Ministry of Health is pushing for adjusted corona rules, the FDP is hesitating.
Deputy SPD parliamentary group leader Detlef Müller is concerned about these tensions in the traffic light coalition.
Traffic light coalition: SPD man Müller calls for a crisis retreat
"The image that we are currently giving as a coalition is not good," Müller told Die
Welt
.
"We have a state of emergency, people are unsettled and afraid," emphasized the SPD politician.
In such a situation, leadership is necessary.
That wouldn't exist if uncoordinated individual opinions were presented every day, said Müller with a view to proposals to contain the energy crisis.
The role of the SPD in constantly having to mediate between the FDP and the Greens is unsatisfactory, criticized Müller.
"Instead of constant new requests to speak via the media or Twitter, I would like to see the traffic light parties and parliamentary groups meet for the first time in the near future, in which we will agree on the most important measures and a uniform line," said the SPD politician.
Dissatisfied with the traffic light dispute: SPD politician Detlef Müller, deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group since 2021.
© Christoph Hardt/IMAGO
Traffic light coalition: According to polls, Union is the strongest force - Greens ahead of SPD
Little seems to be left of the departure after the general election.
The parties like to emphasize that differences are normal and would even help the discourse.
However, the jubilant exclamations of the “progress coalition”, as those involved called the premiere alliance, have evaporated.
That, in turn, pleases the opposition.
The Union, which had to hand over the chancellorship to the SPD after 16 years, seems to be benefiting from the traffic light riots.
In current polls, the CDU/CSU is clearly the strongest force.
The largest opposition party reaches 25 to 28 percent.
The SPD recently fell below the 20 percent mark and the FDP below the 10 percent mark.
The Greens achieve 22 to 24 percent, which, according to polls, has to do with the popularity of ex-party leaders Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock.
This is not the case for the traffic light as a whole: According to the current trend in Germany, around six out of ten citizens are dissatisfied with the Scholz government.
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