Monday, August 02, 2021
Christian Lindner in the “early start”
“With Laschet, Jamaica would not be a shift to the left”
FDP boss Lindner does not see a traffic light coalition coming. He assumes that the Union will make up the strongest parliamentary group, “and then that is where the government’s mandate lies”. He sees no offer coming from the Greens and the SPD that the FDP would accept.
FDP leader Christian Lindner considers a traffic light coalition to be excluded. “I don’t see that Ms. Baerbock or Mr. Scholz are embarrassed about having a government education assignment,” he said in “early start” at ntv. “If the attempt is made, I ask myself: What should Ms. Baerbock or Mr. Scholz’s offer to the FDP be?”
Lindner drew a parallel between a traffic light in 2021 and the FDP’s explorations with the Union and the Greens four years ago: “In 2017, we prevented a shift to the left in German politics with Ms. Merkel and the Greens when we said no to Jamaica at that time people can rely this year too. There will be no left shift in German politics with the FDP. “
In general, Lindner considers a Federal Chancellor Armin Laschet to be as good as safe. He assumes that the Union will make up the strongest parliamentary group, “and then that is where the government’s mandate lies”. The only open question is whether there will be “black and green or government participation with the FDP”.
Unlike in 2017 with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Lindner can imagine a Jamaica coalition under a Chancellor Laschet: “With an Armin Laschet, with whom we have been successfully ruling North Rhine-Westphalia for four years, this year’s attempt at Jamaica would be more of a policy the middle, when it would have been 2017 with Ms. Merkel and the Greens. “
Nevertheless, he has criticism of Laschet: “Armin Laschet contradicts his own election manifesto by canceling the tax relief provided there.” That is wrong in the matter, “because we have to advance the economy and then we have to work for relief from the nurse to the craft business”.
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