Those who fly high can fall even lower: FDP and SPD attack Habeck – probably with Scholz's blessing
Created: 08/31/2022, 05:08
By: Georg Anastasiadis
Robert Habeck is under pressure after his gas allocation draft.
© Britta Pedersen/dpa
Robert Habeck is under pressure with his gas allocation proposal.
Headwind comes from the traffic light coalition of SPD and FDP.
Munich – If you fly high, you can fall even lower.
Robert Habeck, the long-celebrated master of ceremonies for the traffic light coalition, is not the first to encounter the laws of political gravity.
What is remarkable, however, is the vehemence with which the coalition friends in particular are trying to bring down the high-flyer of German politics, in a form that is clearly coordinated between the SPD and FDP:
Habeck's (indeed screwed up) draft for the gas levy is "full of technical errors", etches the FDP and acknowledges his promise to improve it with the ultimatum that Habeck has to react by the cabinet meeting in Meseberg.
The worst sentence, however, comes from SPD leader Klingbeil, who aims at Habeck's sore point: "In the end, it's not just nice words that count in politics."
Traffic light less than a year in office: SPD, Greens and FDP are only fighting for themselves
One can assume that Klingbeil did not open his "friendly fire" on the favorite of the season without the Chancellor's approval.
Olaf Scholz is under pressure himself: The state elections on October 9th in the SPD state of Lower Saxony is also a test for his chancellorship - and may set the trend for whether the Greens can replace the comrades as the left-wing people's party.
The mood in the FDP is hardly better, which has returned to the 5 percent hurdle faster than hoped.
The traffic light has not even been in office for a year, but everyone in this alliance is already fighting for themselves, fatally at a time of mutually reinforcing global crises.
The Greens are not innocent in this picture of misery, because they saw Russia's war early on as an opportunity to impose their agenda of phasing out fossil fuels without presenting any proposals for securing the supply through supplementary energy sources.
Wind and sun alone are not (yet) possible.
George Anastasiadis
