From Hildburg Bruns
It is one of the hottest questions before and after the election: with whom can and does CDU top candidate Kai Wegner (50) form a coalition? According to the polls, he would be the first to be spoiled for choice.
“I’m a big fan of two-person constellations,” said Wegner in a “Tagesspiegel” interview at the weekend. Translated, this means: He hopes that the FDP will be expelled from Parliament – otherwise a stable two-person constellation is not in sight. In the most recent Forsa survey commissioned by the “Berliner Zeitung”, the Liberals are close to the five percent hurdle, so they have to tremble about moving back in. According to this survey, the CDU would have 26 percent, followed by the Greens (18) and the SPD (17).
Internally, Wegner favors black and green, but is clearly muscled up against the traffic policy of Bettina Jarasch (54) & Co. That mobilizes his voters. But he does not definitively rule out such an alliance!
Wegner said to the BZ last week: “If I look at the development of the Greens from the A100 to Friedrichstrasse, I can imagine a 30 km/h speed limit across the board plus halving of the parking spaces at present It is very difficult to imagine a coalition with this party.” And at the weekend, too, he only said that this transport policy could not be done with him. In the struggle for a coalition agreement, everything is always a matter of negotiation anyway.
And Franziska Giffey (44, SPD)? She is completely silent on the coalition issue. So it could go back to red-green-red. In 2021 she had demonstratively flirted with the FDP, this time she only says that the FDP should remain in parliament.
And black and red? Wegner’s plain text at the weekend: “The question is whether the SPD is ready to admit that things cannot go on as they are… If the Social Democrats believe that everything will remain as it is and they will govern for three and a half years in another country If the constellation continues, I won’t go along with it.“