Government formation: Green youth warns against too much willingness to compromise

Government formation: Green youth warns against too much willingness to compromise

On Monday, the SPD, the Greens and the FDP will continue to talk about a possible traffic light coalition at the federal level. The Green Youth clearly formulates their expectations.

The federal spokesman for the Green Youth, Georg Kurz, has given the explorations about a coalition with the SPD
and FDP warned against too much willingness to compromise.

“The 1.5-degree target must be the basis for everything that the government decides,” he told the editorial network Germany (RND). By this he means the goal anchored in the Paris climate protection agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial age. «It has to be linked to social justice. We need both 100 percent. “

Kurz stated that this means specifically that the level of rents for apartments should no longer be left to the market. He emphasized: “Our aim is for things to change fundamentally. We don’t need to make a few small corrections. “

“For us a Jamaica coalition is out of the question”

The Green Youth will come to a federal congress on Saturday in Erfurt, Thuringia, under the motto “No time for small steps – fight for the future!” together. The youth organization of the Greens wants to make it clear “which requirements and conditions” it is placing on a new federal government.

In an urgency motion, the federal executive positions itself against an alliance with the CDU / CSU and FDP: “There is not one reason for Jamaica – but many reasons against it. For us, a Jamaica coalition is out of the question, ”it says there. The Green Youth also elects a new federal board.

The negotiators of the SPD, Greens and FDP want to set the course for a possible first traffic light coalition at federal level in the coming week. The first results are expected for next Friday, as the parties last said in Berlin. Then, above all, the FDP and the Greens want to decide whether to enter into coalition negotiations with the SPD – or whether there may have to be another exploratory round.

DGB wants green finance ministry

Meanwhile, the head of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), Reiner Hoffmann, demanded that the Ministry of Finance should go to the Greens in a traffic light coalition – not to the FDP. “I hope that the traffic light coalition comes about,” he told the editorial network Germany (RND). “But I am not of the opinion that the FDP should take over the finance ministry in it.”

A wise, investment-oriented financial policy will be
Be the basis for successfully mastering the fight against climate change. “The Greens have made far-reaching proposals for this,” said Hoffmann. “So I think it would be right if you lay claim to the office of finance minister.”

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