TV Criticism
Lars Klingbeil came with white sneakers, Cem Özdemir gave the Swabian pastor: At “Anne Will” the second row of parties discussed. Show off a little, let off steam, woo a little – until a journalist made an announcement.
By Mark Stöhr
After 45 minutes, Kristina Dunz had heard enough. The journalist was the only neutral person in the group and was forced to make a sharp interim conclusion. Every government, no matter in which coalition, she said, would be measured on the issue of climate protection by what money and bans had been made possible in the corona pandemic. How quickly and how hard politics can react. “Everyone involved is a long way off from that.” After that, the post-election campaign for “Anne Will” came to an abrupt end.
It discussed:
• Kristina Dunz, deputy head of the capital city editorial office of the editorial network Germany
• Pure Haseloff (CDU), Prime Minister in Saxony-Anhalt
• Lars Klingbeil (SPD), General Secretary
• Cem Ozdemir (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the Bundestag
• Volker Wissing (FDP), General Secretary
Best-of the campaign topics, just tired in
By Dunz’s wake-up call, the party functionaries had settled down in triumph or disappointment. Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) was visibly disheveled, especially from the success of the AfD in the east. His mantra: Let the result sink in, treat each other sensitively.
Lars Klingbeil’s body language is completely different. He presented himself as the winner, confidently placing his bright white sneakers in the middle of the studio. Volker Wissing came across with the usual arrogance of the FDP – while Cem Özdemir tried his hand at being a Swabian pastor and raved about the “high office of democracy”. The debate: a best-of of the campaign items, just in tired. Özdemir clashed with Klingbeil’s casually presented plea for more climate protection and accused the SPD general secretary that everything sounded as if the Social Democrats had spent the last few years elsewhere and had just re-entered Germany. Counter Klingbeil: “Take a look at the moderate balance of the expansion of renewable energies in Baden-Württemberg.” Özdemir: “The government there adheres to federal laws that SPD ministers pass.” Haseloff interjected: “We in Saxony-Anhalt, as one of the frontrunners in the expansion of renewables, are happy to continue delivering green electricity to the south.” FDP man Wissing said: “If we want the economy to invest in climate neutrality, it doesn’t need tax increases, but more money.”
Search for the “narrative” behind a coalition
So it went back and forth and wildly mixed up. It almost seemed as if everyone wanted to blow off steam again before they really had to talk to each other in the probes. Kristina Dunz’s intervention pulled the plug on the nagging. Suddenly there was an almost state-supporting seriousness in the group. Just don’t make the same mistake again as in the 2017 Jamaica negotiations, when black-green agreed and the FDP treated more like a maid of honor!
Cem Özdemir nodded his head vigorously. A coalition agreement, said Wissing, should not be a patchwork in which everyone can contribute. The decisive factor is togetherness and the added value for society. Klingbeil spoke of a “story” that all three partners should be behind. Wise words.
Only the disheveled Reiner Haseloff wanted nothing to do with a new start. He made a remarkable development in the course of the program: from a warning for an intellectual moratorium by the Union to a recruiter for a new edition of the grand coalition. The many crises of the last few years have been managed well together. And anyway: “It’s not like we come from the moon and have to build a new Federal Republic.”
Conclusion
What had already been shown in the “elephant round” of the top candidates on ARD and ZDF continued in the second row with “Anne Will”: As much as the SPD is bursting with self-confidence – the FDP and the Greens keep all options open. Cem Özdemir had more Jamaica vibes, Volker Wissing repeated the sentence twice: “We will orientate ourselves on the content.”
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