CSU leader Söder uses every opportunity to position himself against a black-green coalition after the federal election. But he has never expressed himself as clearly as he has now.
CSU leader Markus Söder has threatened to veto his party if the CDU considers a black-green alliance after the federal election. “A coalition after the election can only be achieved by mutual agreement between the CDU and the CSU. The CSU can prevent the Greens and we will do so, just so that we can see that here,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister after a meeting of the CSU executive board in Munich. Although Söder has often taken a stand against an alliance with the Greens in the past, he has not yet expressed himself so clearly.
Any statement in favor of the Greens from the Union would lead to a reduction in the electoral chances of the CDU and CSU, “a definitive reduction. And in the end I assume that there will be a majority, beyond the Greens and beyond BSW. That is our goal,” said Söder.
His “urgent advice” for Bavaria and everywhere where Union votes are at stake is clear: whoever opens up to the Greens will lose. “By the way, I wish NRW and Schleswig-Holstein a happy coalition life, that is expressly stated. But please no advice at the federal level, because that will not work. There will be no black-green with us.”
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt had previously criticised CDU state premiers Hendrik Wüst (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Daniel Günther (Schleswig-Holstein), who last week highlighted their cooperation with their green coalition partners. “One or two black-green romantics in the federal states must realise that Germany neither wants to be re-educated nor wants to be a guinea pig for left-green ideological projects,” Dobrindt told the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”.
Söder also took the FDP to task: If the party now announced that it was leaving the traffic light coalition, it would be a bit like “suicide out of fear of death”. There was no other way to see it and it was ultimately not very credible. He had no interest in the FDP being thrown out of the Bundestag. But the fact was that the party of Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner had a say in everything in the traffic light coalition. Although he personally respected Lindner, it was a mistake to join the traffic light coalition with the SPD and the Greens in the first place, even though an alliance between the Union, FDP and the Greens would have been mathematically feasible at the time.
Source: Stern
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