Her party will only form a coalition with the CDU if it makes major concessions, says top candidate Jarasch. After their election victory, the Christian Democrats invite the SPD and the Greens to talks.
After the election in Berlin, Greens’ top candidate Bettina Jarasch believes that a black-green coalition in Berlin is only possible if the CDU makes strong concessions. “There is no alliance among the Greens without a mobility and heating transition, without really making Berlin climate-neutral and without real tenant protection,” said Jarasch in the morning on RBB Inforadio. However, the Greens politician emphasized again that she favors a continuation of the coalition of SPD, Greens and Left. The coalition agreement is a good basis for this. In view of the conceivably close election result, however, she expects a “really cooperative” approach, stressed Jarasch. The continuation of the red-red-green coalition will not fail on the left, said the left’s top candidate Klaus Lederer.
By far the strongest force was the CDU on Sunday. With 28.2 percent of the votes, she got about ten percentage points more than in the election in September 2021. SPD and Greens each had 18.4 percent, the SPD is 105 votes more than the Greens by a hair’s breadth. The FDP failed with 4.6 percent at the five percent hurdle and will no longer be represented in the House of Representatives. The left accounted for 12.2 percent and the AfD for 9.1 percent.
CDU top candidate Kai Wegner rated the result on Sunday evening as a “clear government mandate” for his party and spoke of inviting the SPD and the Greens to exploratory talks – he could form a coalition with both.
The constitutional court had ordered the repeat election because of massive irregularities in the 2021 election. Since then, an alliance of SPD, Greens and Left Party has governed the federal capital under the leadership of Mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD).