Friday, April 02, 2021
“Coalition with CDU is fatal”
Green youth rebel against Kretschmann
The dispute over the future coalition in Baden-Württemberg continues to smolder. The decision of the party executive to seek further cooperation with the CDU met with incomprehension, especially among younger party members. This is “wrong and fatal,” they criticize.
For Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, the matter seems clear: He would like to continue the coalition with the CDU in his state. The alternative of a traffic light with SPD and FDP is apparently out of the question for the Green politician – despite corresponding demands from his party.
After a tough struggle, the state executive of the Greens cleared the way for a “final exploratory discussion” with the CDU. This should then form the basis for future coalition negotiations with the Christian Democrats. Younger party members in particular are said to have rebelled against this decision. Sarah Heim, state spokeswoman for the Green Youth in the Southwest, said: “This decision sounds like a bad April Fool’s joke. To form a coalition with the CDU again although there was another option is incomprehensible.”
“A punch in the face”
But that does not stop the criticism of the coalition plans. On the contrary. Now the Federal Association of Green Youth also got involved in the debate. “A new coalition with the CDU is wrong and fatal,” said its spokeswoman Anna Peters to the editorial network Germany (RND). “Before the elections, the Greens in Baden-Württemberg clearly stated that they wanted a government without a Union. This decision is a slap in the face for everyone who campaigned for the change in recent months,” she added.
The Greens run for elections to achieve change. “Up to now, no one has been able to explain to us how a renewed coalition with the CDU should work. There is no future with the Union,” said Peters. The experience with the green-black government in Baden-Württemberg over the past five years has also shown “that agreements of the CDU are broken and coalition agreements are disregarded”.
The Greens had become the strongest force in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg on March 14, followed by the CDU. In purely mathematical terms, both a coalition with the CDU and a three-party alliance with the SPD and FDP would be an option.
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