Coalition negotiations: main negotiators of the Union and SPD days from Friday

After the election, everything goes very quickly. The result is announced, the MEPs applaud, Greens parliamentary group leader Katharina Dröge presents the new Bundestag president a bouquet of flowers and she is already behind the lectern. CDU politician Julia Klöckner gives her first speech in the new office.

She always had the firm will to fill her new office “impartial, calm and unpaid”. The constitution of the Bundestag is a solemn moment, an event of continuity, but also of the departure. After all, a new parliament with new majorities was elected.

Right at the beginning of her speech, she looks at Turkey. “Democracy cannot be stopped,” says Klöckner. In her speech, she once again emphasizes the high turnout in the Bundestag election. The loss of trust in politics and their institutions is less gratifying. This trust now has to be regained, and she also wants to contribute to this.

“I will not only look at the clock, I will also listen carefully,” she says. Living in a free democracy is not a matter of course and this also includes an opposition. You have to endure and lead controversial debates, but she will make sure “that we have civilized cooperation”. Because the way in which parliament deals with each other has an impact on social debates. Finally, the parliament conducts the debates in the name of society that it chose. Criticism is part of it, but no personal reduction.