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“Whether Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Berlin: If the SPD can, it governs with the left wing”
The CDU has sharply criticized the SPD for its course in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to form possible governments with the participation of the Left Party.
Berlin – The CDU has sharply criticized the SPD for its course in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to form possible governments with the participation of the Left Party. “Whether Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Berlin: If the SPD can, it governs with the left wing,” wrote CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak on Thursday on Twitter. Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is the “bourgeois fig leaf of an essentially left-wing SPD.” He lacks the imagination of how the FDP wants to save face “in a left traffic light”. At the federal level, the SPD is negotiating with the Greens and the FDP about the formation of a so-called traffic light coalition.
With his tweet, Ziemiak responded to the plans of SPD Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, who now wants to enter into coalition negotiations with the left after winning the state election in September. So far she has governed with the CDU. In addition, the designated governing mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey (SPD), announced on Thursday that she wanted to enter the next phase of exploratory talks with the Greens and the Left to reissue the existing Red-Green-Red alliance. Other majorities are possible in Berlin, “but left-wing SPD functionaries are forcing candidate Giffey back on R2G,” wrote Ziemiak. (dpa)