Federal election campaign
Scholz does not rule out another coalition with the FDP
After the falling out between Scholz and Lindner, is a government alliance between the SPD and FDP still conceivable? The Chancellor only rules out a coalition with one party.
Despite his falling out with FDP leader Christian Lindner when the traffic light was broken, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) does not rule out a renewed coalition with the Liberals after the federal election. When asked by the magazine “Stern” whether an alliance with the FDP “possibly without party leader Lindner” was an option, he said: “I have nothing general against the FDP. (…) The citizens decide, and we politicians have to go along with it deal with the result.”
Scholz: Coalition with BSW “hard to imagine”
Scholz only fundamentally ruled out a coalition with the AfD. He described an alliance with Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW as “difficult to imagine” because of the party’s foreign policy positions.
The SPD politician had a falling out with Lindner in the dispute over the 2025 budget, ultimately fired his finance minister and thus brought about the end of the traffic light coalition. Scholz and Lindner then accused each other of being to blame for the traffic light failure. The Chancellor had indirectly cast doubt on the moral maturity of the FDP.
Lindner is not convinced by the program and style of the “Scholz-SPD”.
In a reaction to Scholz’s current statement, Lindner confirmed that he was striving for cooperation with the CDU/CSU. “Among democrats you have to be able to form a coalition. But the program and style of Scholz’s SPD don’t convince me,” he wrote on Platform “In this matter, I think black and yellow is the best choice,” emphasized Lindner.
The FDP currently has to fear for entry into the Bundestag. After the break of the traffic light coalition, the party only got 3 to 4 percent in surveys. So far, the Union has made no apparent move to support the FDP. At the traditional Epiphany meeting, Lindner had warned the day before that with black-green or black-red there was a risk of “traffic light light”.
Traffic lights far from majority
Even if the FDP were to clear the 5 percent hurdle, the current polls show that the traffic light would be far from a government majority, as the SPD only has 14 to 18 percent and the Greens 12 to 14 percent.
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Source: Stern
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