The Juso bosses Sinem Tasan-Funke and Peter Maass at the conference of delegates in the Willy-Brandt-Haus Photo: Hildburg Bruns
From Hildburg Bruns
SPD leader Franziska Giffey (44) has canceled her greeting. The 81 delegates from the Berlin Jusos let off steam in the Willy Brandt House about the planned coalition with the CDU.
Right at the beginning there is a broadside from Juso boss Peter Maass (30) against the lost Giffey election campaign: “The tailoring to the top candidate was not the key to success.” The SPD ended up far behind the CDU (28.2 percent) with a mini lead over the Greens (18.4 percent each).
Large majority of Jusos vote for No-GroKo Photo: Hildburg Bruns
The Jusos make up around 5,000 of the 18,800 SPD members in Berlin who will vote by letter on black and red in April after the end of the coalition negotiations that are now underway. Co-Chairman Sinem Tasan-Funke (29) announced the “biggest campaign the SPD has ever seen. We want a big public bang.” And: “We will only rest when we have prevented this grand coalition.”
The next generation of the party (maximum age 35 years) voted in the afternoon after the debate with a large majority for the “No-GroKo” motion. A central sentence plays with the CDU’s criticized first name query for the New Year’s Eve offenders. The Jusos: “Kai is the wrong first name for the Red Town Hall.”
What the Jusos also criticize about the future CDU governing mayor Kai Wegner (50): “We consider him completely unsuitable for this office. He has no experience whatsoever in leading authorities and administrations.”