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Still Prime Minister Giffey, possible successor Wegner: handshake in the exploration, coalition negotiations soon?
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In the afternoon, the Berlin SPD leadership will discuss possible coalition negotiations with the CDU.
Franziska Giffey is in favor of it - but the newcomers to the party announce a total blockade: "The CDU doesn't fit in with Berlin and not with the SPD," said Berlin Juso boss Sinem Taşan-Funke to SPIEGEL.
One is disappointed by the emerging sounding result.
"We will oppose any attempt to form a coalition with the CDU."
Taşan-Funke passed a devastating verdict on the CDU: Anyone who hates migrant groups, is against affordable housing and smiles at the turnaround in transport disqualifies themselves as coalition partners for social democracy.
"Experience at federal level shows that a coalition with the CDU, especially under the leadership of the CDU, means at best stagnation and at worst, going backwards." Berlin cannot afford that.
The Juso boss also points out that in the February 12 election, the CDU and SPD were particularly successful with older voters, while the younger generations tended towards political competition.
A coalition that only has a majority in the group over 60 does not take into account the will of the younger generation and cannot be a future coalition (you can find details on the voting behavior of the age groups here).
They want an SPD that “stands up for a solidary Berlin, instead of smoothing the way for the splitters from the CDU to the Red Town Hall”.
Early on Tuesday evening it became known that Giffey intends to propose coalition negotiations with the CDU to the SPD state executive.
This is remarkable because, despite the poor election result, the SPD would have a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives together with its previous coalition partners, the Greens and the Left.
The CDU clearly won the election on February 12 with 28.2 percent.
The SPD, with Giffey as the lead candidate, came in second with just 18.4 percent, a razor-thin lead of just 53 votes over the Greens.
According to the final result, the CDU has 52 seats in the House of Representatives, the SPD and the Greens each 34. The Left Party gets 22 seats and the AfD 17. This distribution of seats is the result of the repeated elections in the capital.
Due to massive glitches, the vote from September 2021 was declared invalid and had to be repeated in its entirety.
The Berlin Constitutional Court had attested to the first election "serious systemic flaws".
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