At a citizens’ dialogue in Bremen, the Hanseatic appears to have spoken from the Chancellor’s perspective. Olaf Scholz is also having difficulty working in his coalition.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has admitted that there are ongoing difficulties in the traffic light coalition. The formation of a coalition between the three parties after the last federal election “was difficult enough, and it has remained difficult,” said Scholz on Monday evening at a citizens’ dialogue in Bremen. He called on the coalition to work together well: The current difficult political situation “increases the demand for good governance and – I say this now with the authority to issue guidelines – for good behavior.”
The difficult decision-making process in the coalition is overshadowing the public’s performance record, which has set many of the course for Germany’s modernization. “Nobody has noticed that yet,” Scholz lamented. “All that remains in people’s memory is the discussion process and not what it has achieved.”
The coalition must better highlight its successes: “I hope that those responsible in the parties learn that they can list everything that has been decided,” said the Chancellor.
Decision-making remains complicated, says Olaf Scholz
Scholz identified the “fragmentation of the political landscape” as a fundamental problem. In previous years, one larger and one smaller party were often enough to form a federal government – with correspondingly simpler decision-making. “It will almost certainly never be like this again; it will remain complicated,” Scholz predicted.
Following a statement by Green Party leader Omid Nouripour, the dispute within the coalition is once again in the spotlight. Nouripour said on Sunday on ARD that the three-party alliance of the SPD, Greens and FDP was a “necessary constellation as a transition for the time after (CDU Chancellor Angela) Merkel.” It is now obvious that “trust has reached its limits” in the traffic light coalition. He referred to a “completely different understanding” of budget priorities in relation to the FDP.
Green Party debacle: Will anyone take responsibility here?
05:24 min
The Union then demanded that the traffic light government be ended quickly. “Our country is threatened with a year of standstill,” said the parliamentary manager of the Union parliamentary group, Thorsten Frei (CDU), to the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” (Tuesday editions). “The best service that the traffic light coalition could do for the country would be to end this tragedy quickly. Enough is enough.”
Source: Stern
I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.
