The SPD and the BSW? The Greens and Sahra Wagenknecht? There are some differences. But the leaders of both parties want to leave decisions about cooperation to their state colleagues.
SPD leader Saskia Esken and Green Party leader Omid Nouripour have not ruled out cooperation between their parties and the Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) coalition at the state level. With the exception of the clear exclusion of any cooperation with the AfD, coalition decisions are “mainly a matter for the state associations,” said Esken in the “ZDF Berlin Direkt Summer Interview.” “They don’t need our advice, they will decide after the election in light of the constellation.” New state parliaments will be elected in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg in September.
Nouripour made similar comments in an ARD format in which he answered questions from social media. “My people decide locally about their coalition, including the question of what to do with Ms. Wagenknecht’s party.” However, the differences between the Greens and BSW are very large. “And the fact that Ms. Wagenknecht has declared a foreign policy issue such as Ukraine (…) to be a condition for a coalition in a state parliament shows how frivolous this all is.” He considers it impossible that the Greens will not enter any of the three state parliaments in the upcoming elections, Nouripour said in response to a corresponding question.
Esken calls traffic light coalition “strong government”
Esken described the traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, which recently fought fiercely for improvements to the draft budget for the coming year, as a “strong government”. She continued: “We are now leading a government, a truly unusual and not easy coalition.” Esken left no doubt about Olaf Scholz’s renewed candidacy. “Olaf Scholz is our chancellor and he will also be our candidate for chancellor.”
Nouripour did not want to commit himself to this question, but defended the possible nomination of a Green candidate for chancellor and did not confirm Robert Habeck as a likely candidate. However, he praised him and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. “The other parties would like to have someone like Robert Habeck. We have him. That is a huge privilege.” In the ARD summer interview, he said of the federal election scheduled for next year: “Everything is still possible.”
Source: Stern
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