Lars Klingbeil offers Volker Wissing SPD accession

SPD boss Lars Klingbeil offered the executive transport minister Volker Wissing (independent) to join the SPD. He appreciates Wissing very much, said Klingbeil in a pre -recorded video interview from the Funke media group. If Wissing “has an interest in getting to the SPD at some point, a door is always open for him”.

Wissing has always shown that he was “a classic social liberal”, Klingbeil explained. As the state minister in Rhineland-Palatinate, he worked very well with the then Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD), who “talks about him in the highest tones and says he was really a stability guarantee”.

He hoped that there are “enough opportunities to somehow with Volker Wissing together in this country,” said Klingbeil. “Let’s see what becomes him. But I really put big pieces on Volker Wissing.”

After the book of the traffic light coalition, Wissing had left the FDP to stay in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). In the current episode of the Funke “My hardest decision”, Wissing accuses the FDP leadership around party leader Christian Lindner that he has brought about the traffic light break.

He was “convinced that this coalition could have continued if you had wanted it,” said Wissing. “You didn’t want to externally end these arguments.” This was “not wanted”. “For me it was always clear that it could end and that the probability is great that it will end,” he said. “But it was like talking to a wall, there was nothing to be done, the faction was also totally enthusiastic about this we criticize the green and what do I know, that was a hype.”

Wissing attributed this destructive attitude to ex-finance minister Lindner. “So, I think Lindner was always afraid that if we are too constructive, that the FDP is then no longer existent or greened or now on the left or something.” He himself was “a little more optimistic”.

In the podcast, Wissing was already asked if he could imagine entering another party. The minister’s answer left a back door open. “I don’t have such considerations, I am now completely different about personal and private things and so I don’t have such thoughts and I can’t say anything about it, but you should never rule out anything.”

Wissing made it clear. “I was only dissatisfied with this kind of how this government ended.”