Kai Wegner (left) welcomes the SPD leaders Franziska Giffey and Raed Saleh to the last exploratory round, which included pork medallions, kale and hemp balls and semolina flambé Photo: Jessica Lichetzki/dpa
From Hildburg Bruns
Enough probed between CDU and SPD! The week of the preliminary decision on the future Berlin government is coming. So who negotiates the actual government program with whom after the repeat election.
These coalition talks are then scheduled to start the week after next. Before that, the election losers Red-Green-Red (on Monday) and election winner Kai Wegner (50) meet again with his secret dream partner, the Greens (on Tuesday).
But according to BZ information, there is a black and red flash of lightning!
Wegner and loser Franziska Giffey (44, SPD) checked each other out in three smaller rounds. Wegner speaks of “many similarities”. Finally, when it comes to finances: they don’t want to save money during the crisis and want to break up the investment backlog in schools, the police, fire brigades and universities.
“We will consider very seriously and seriously and decide in conjunction with the party committees,” said Giffey after the last round.
Black and red would mean that after the fall of Eberhard Diepgen (81 today) in 2001, Berlin would once again have a governing mayor from the CDU.
Giffey would not have to abdicate completely: she could become vice president in the Red City Hall and stay as a senator. A change from the first to the second row. But such decisions will not be made until April at the earliest.