The Greens’ campaign for a coalition with the CDU and CSU is becoming louder. One prominent representative says that people are “exhausted” from governing in traffic lights.
Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt considers a black-green government coalition in the federal government to be promising. “We govern in many countries with democratic parties in various constellations. You can certainly feel that we are exhausted from governing in alliance with the SPD and FDP,” said the Green politician to the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. “And then it’s completely okay to point out that the black-green coalition can govern well in the states.”
The relevant coalitions in the federal states solved the existing problems, Göring-Eckardt told the newspaper. “This can also work in the federal government. The CDU is faced with the question of which course it will take: Will Friedrich Merz and Hendrik Wüst prevail or Markus Söder? That will become clear in 2025.” The next federal election will take place regularly in autumn 2025.
Veto or wait for a change of course?
CSU leader Söder, who had pledged his full support to CDU chancellor candidate Merz, threatened a little later that the Bavarian sister party would veto a federal coalition with the Greens. Merz is currently ruling out such a coalition, but not necessarily in the future – if the Greens change. Merz told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” that it was about “a fundamental course correction in the Greens’ economic and environmental policy.” Black-green coalitions already govern in Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia, where Wüst is head of government.
Last week, the two Green Party leaders Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour announced their withdrawal after the failure in the state elections in Brandenburg. Observers expect that in the future the party could focus more closely on its possible candidate for chancellor, Economics Minister Robert Habeck.
Source: Stern
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