Bundestag election campaign
Söder wants to put his own stamp on the coalition with the SPD
CSU boss Söder definitely does not want to form a coalition with the Greens. He wouldn’t be particularly happy about the SPD as a partner either. He demands that the Social Democrats have to change in important points.
CSU leader Markus Söder has once again rejected a coalition with the Greens in view of the upcoming new election, but also sees an alliance with the SPD as problematic. “I admit, it’s also very difficult with the SPD,” said Söder on the ARD “Tagesthemen”. Citizens’ money is the biggest chunk and the SPD has to change. “The stronger we become, the more clearly we can, for example, put our stamp on the SPD in a joint government.”
The Bavarian Prime Minister said that the Greens were in a bad position: “The Robert Habeck program means: keep it up with the heating Greens, keep it up with the gender Greens, keep it up, even expanding it to the left.” CDU leader Friedrich Merz also made it clear that this economic policy would not work with these people. Before the last federal election, Söder had expressly supported a black-green alliance.
“More Union and less red and no green at all”
“In the end we have to find a decision – but with more Union and less red and no green at all,” said Söder. It is now crucial for the Union to become strong itself “in order to then make it clear who is number one in the government and who can achieve more.”
A coalition would be easiest with the FDP, says Söder. But it remains to be seen whether the FDP will find the strength again – it is currently questionable whether the Liberals will even make it into the Bundestag on the expected election date of February 23rd. In any case, it would be best to concentrate on the Union itself, said Söder. “The stronger we become, the stronger the Union’s plus is, the more we can push through the content we have.” The Union, SPD and Greens presented their election programs on Tuesday.
In his own words, Söder cannot currently imagine a ministerial position at the federal level. He wants to play in the “actual core political power,” and that is the coalition committee. “That’s where the traffic lights began and ended and that’s where I want to help as party leader and prime minister.”
dpa
Source: Stern
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