BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Green Party leader Franziska Brantner wants to continue to consider a black-green coalition as an option and is therefore criticizing CSU leader Markus Söder’s blanket rejection of such an alliance. “Markus Söder regularly changes his position. We Democrats have to remain able to talk to each other,” Brantner told the “Tagesspiegel”. If the Union sees the Greens as the “main enemy”, this will increase the chances of the BSW participating in government, as in Brandenburg or Thuringia.
“The shaky constellations also strengthen the AfD,” said Brantner. “Konrad Adenauer would turn in his grave if he saw that Mr. Söder would rather rely on actors who drive us into Putin’s arms rather than on clear ties to the West and European security.” She sees a black-red coalition made up of the Union and the SPD as an “expensive standstill”.
Söder had categorically rejected a black-green coalition in the federal government several times. Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz (CDU) expressed himself similarly dismissively, but not as irrefutably as Söder. He often expressed himself in such a way that the Union does not want to work together “with these Greens” or rejects “what the Greens are currently doing”./mi/DP/zb