According to surveys, the CDU has a good chance of becoming the strongest force in the repeat election.
But that still might not be enough to rule.
Berlin - Next Sunday, Berlin will elect the House of Representatives for the second time in two years after massive election mishaps in 2021. This means that the red-green-red coalition will have to face the vote of the voters much earlier than usual.
And in the latest survey, the CDU is well ahead of the Greens and the SPD.
According to the representative survey by the opinion research institute forsa for the "Berliner Zeitung", the Christian Democrats currently have 26 percent.
They are followed by the Greens (18 percent) just ahead of the SPD (17 percent).
In this survey, the left ends up at 12 percent, the AfD at 10 percent.
According to the survey, the FDP must tremble about entering the House of Representatives, it stands at 5 percent.
Although things are not looking good for the Berlin FDP, the top candidate Sebastian Czaja is hoping for a victory for the CDU in the Berlin elections.
"Now it will be a matter of ensuring that the CDU does not end up in the opposition, even though it wins the election.
And that's why we're now campaigning again to make the FDP strong, so that you can't build a left-wing coalition against the Union and basically the CDU and FDP choose the third partner together," said Czaja in the podcast Politics with the style of Ruben Giuliano Cooperation with IPPEN.Media.
Czaja "takes note" of the fact that the CDU would have flirted with the Greens in the past for a coalition, but hopes for a Germany coalition together with the CDU and SPD.
And the hope that if the FDP manages the 5 percent hurdle could come true.
Because a coalition of CDU and Greens in Berlin after the repeat election next Sunday is becoming increasingly unlikely.
Berlin's CDU leader Kai Wegner virtually rejected a black-green cooperation at the weekend in the "Tagesspiegel".
"What the Greens and Mrs. Jarasch are demanding in the election campaign, especially in transport policy, cannot be done with me.
Point,” Wegner told the newspaper.
He justified this with plans by the Greens to want to remove half of the parking spaces in the capital - that was "a unilateral policy against the car," said Wegner.
The Greens' top candidate Bettina Jarasch reacted promptly to the statements made by the CDU leader: "After rejecting a diverse city, the CDU is now also canceling the mobility turnaround," said the Senator for Transport.
"What metropolises like Copenhagen and New York can do, Berlin can do too: be a modern, green metropolis, and that includes the mobility turnaround." go ahead with green".
You can find out more about the Berlin repeat election in the entire episode "Politik mit Stil".
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