Berlin coalition talks – How does the CDU like it at the SPD? – BZ Berlin
The slats behind the windows of the SPD headquarters on Müllerstrasse are closed. No image of the exploratory talks should get out. Only the greeting on the sidewalk is celebrated. But not a word about the content, just the standard sentences about “constructive discussions”.
Election winner Franziska Giffey (43, blue pants suit) looking for her new Berlin government. From 9 a.m. five hours with the CDU – the first union round. How do you like negotiator Kai Wegner (49)? “The pumpkin and ginger soup was excellent, the chocolate mousse very good.”
Wegner went in with a CDU election program, came out hours later with one from the SPD. Next door in a cul-de-sac are two huge containers, in front of which sozis stop with their private cars and pile in their election posters – Scholz, Giffey & Co. are recycled.
Change of location to Kreuzberg – in front of the party headquarters of the Berlin Greens. In a bright red (!) Silk blouse with lipstick of the same color, the second-placed election winner Bettina Jarasch (52) signals to the advancing left-wing representatives: Welcome! This is not a hidden message, but a screaming message.
Jarasch wants a continuation of red, red, green – but in the order of the new strengths of red, green, red. Greens and leftists chat for two hours during lunchtime, but nobody has to spoon anything – there are rolls, pretzels, cakes.
Die Linke hat drummed for the referendum on expropriation. How its initiators continue to make themselves heard, initiators also hear the SPD and CDU in the afternoon during their talks: “Traitors! Traitors! ”Is chanted with an amplifier and stocky music of clay, stones, shards (“ No power for nobody ”).
At 4 p.m., the second group rolled in front of the SPD headquarters – the FDP with Sebastian Czaja (38) and Christoph Meyer (46). In a suit, while the soci men wear jeans – but at the end of the day they also negotiated 2 × 5 hours.
At the end of the week, EVERYONE WILL HAVE NEGOTIATED WITH EVERYONE. Next week everything will start from the beginning – but then it’s about sticking points. Before the autumn break, it should be clear which parties will be eliminated from the race for the next three-person constellation.
SPD and CDU
► review: Most recently, the SPD ruler Klaus Wowereit (67) brought the CDU into a joint government on November 24, 2011. She became under his successor Michael Müller (56) in December 2014
► Actors back then: Frank Henkel (57), who had to replace Justice Senator Michael Braun and Economics Senator Sybille von Obernitz after a short time from his Senate members. At the SPD, Matthias Kollatz changes to Ulrich Nussbaum.
► Success back then: The unemployment rate was no longer in double digits, 150,000 jobs were created. The households no longer ended in a deficit, the debt level fell by 3 billion euros.
► Content today: There are many things in common: the introduction of a 365-euro annual ticket, the planning of subway routes, the return to teaching staff, video surveillance of crime-prone locations, the rejection of the expropriation of large real estate companies, the rejection of a city center Toll, new referendum on the edge development of Tempelhofer Feld, continued headscarf ban for teachers – and the construction of 20,000 new apartments per year.
SPD and FDP
► review: The Senate of Hans-Jochen Vogel († 2020) was the last joint government – only 139 days in 1981. His predecessor Dietrich Stobbe († 2011) forged the connection in April 1979.
► Actors back then: The FDP loved four of 13 senators, the mayor was Senator for Economics Guido Brunner († 1997).
► Success back then: Stobbe again brought state visits to Berlin (including the Queen, US President Carter). A Senate guarantee for bankrupt building contractor Garski caused a sensation. Under Vogel there was a first calming of the squatter scene (10,000 apartments empty), the return of the figures from the Schloßbrücke to East Berlin against the KPM archive.
► Content today: Big differences in rent policy, because the FDP does not apply the rent brake and wants to abolish milieu protection areas and pre-emptive rights of districts. There is agreement among other things in the rejection of expropriation demands for the expansion of the subway, no maneuvering of motorists, as well as the further construction of the A100 at least as far as Treptow. And at least one pilot attempt to release cannabis.