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As of: 09/30/2021 9:56 a.m.
CDU Vice President Spahn has campaigned for a coalition of the Union with the Greens and the FDP. The SPD called on Union Chancellor candidate Laschet to recognize the election result as a defeat for the CDU and CSU. The developments in the live blog.
- SPD calls on Laschet to recognize electoral defeat
- Göring-Eckardt against coalition with the Union
- Green youth doubts the “fresh image” of the FDP
9:56 a.m.
NRW takes over the chairmanship of the Prime Minister’s Conference
North Rhine-Westphalia will take over the chairmanship of the Ministerial Presidents’ Conference (MPK) on October 1st. The committee meets several times a year to agree on common positions and the representation of interests of the states vis-à-vis the federal government. The chair changes every year in October. North Rhine-Westphalia takes it over from Berlin. Since the MPK was founded in 1954, Düsseldorf has held the chair for the sixth time.
The next annual conference is scheduled for October 20-22 at Petersberg near Bonn. Combating the corona pandemic will once again be a central topic at the MPK. In all likelihood, the conference will still be chaired by the outgoing NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU). The Union’s candidate for chancellor had announced that he would give up his offices in North Rhine-Westphalia regardless of the outcome of the federal election. However, he has not yet announced a specific date for this step.
8:43 am
Schneider: “Coalition at eye level” with the Greens and the FDP
The SPD continues to woo the Greens and FDP for the hoped-for traffic light coalition. The Social Democrats wanted a “coalition at eye level”, assured the parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group, Carsten Schneider, in the ARD morning magazine. All three partners are then “worth the same”. Regarding different views, especially between his party and the FDP, Schneider said: “I think it can be a good thing to fertilize each other if you pack the best of all worlds together.” He is confident that an agreement on a coalition “can also be achieved very quickly”.
“If the liberals and the Greens get along well, I think that’s great – we want a coalition at eye level,” Carsten Schneider, SPD parliamentary group, commented on the preliminary rounds of the FDP and the Greens
Morning magazine, 9/30/2021
8:29 am
Spahn wants timely explorations with the Greens and the FDP
CDU Vice President Jens Spahn has campaigned for a Jamaica coalition with the Greens and the FDP. “I am firmly convinced that a bourgeois, ecological, liberal government would be better for our country than a traffic light, also when it comes to the question of which issues it can bring together,” said the Federal Minister of Health Deutschlandfunk. He expects the first talks to be held in a timely manner. “They will and must take place around the weekend now.” The explorations should then be brought to an end by mid-October. FDP general secretary Volker Wissing had declared on ZDF that the FDP had offered a meeting on Saturday, but it could not take place because of the Union.
07:42 am
Green youth doubts the “fresh image” of the FDP
With a view to the FDP as a possible coalition partner of the Greens in a future federal government, the Green Youth warns against too much trust in the market. “Unfortunately, so far the fresh image of the FDP has only been based on the old story of the miraculous forces of the market,” said the federal spokesman for the Green Youth, Georg Kurz, of the dpa news agency. “Leaving the climate crisis to the profit logics and growth pressures that led us into this crisis is not an option,” emphasized Kurz.
07:31 am
Taxpayers’ Association: Little financial leeway for new government
Before the start of possible coalition soundings, the taxpayers’ association warned not to overestimate the financial possibilities of the coming federal government. “Because of the high pandemic costs, the next government’s financial scope is very limited,” said the President of the Taxpayers’ Association, Rainer Holznagel, of the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. For higher income in the future, the focus should not be on tax increases, but on tax breaks in order to stimulate the economy over the long term.
07:27 am
SPD calls on Laschet to recognize electoral defeat
The SPD calls on Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet to acknowledge and acknowledge the result of the Bundestag election as an election defeat of the CDU and CSU. “The fact that Armin Laschet is still unable to recognize the total rejection of the voters, but instead doggedly haggles for every millimeter of power, is a shameful indictment for him and the parties that support him, the CDU and CSU,” said the SPD. Chairwoman Norbert Walter-Borjans of the newspaper “Augsburger Allgemeine”. The voters had made it clear who they wanted to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel and who they didn’t.
07:13 am
CDU women criticize the high proportion of men in the Union parliamentary group
The female CDU members united in the Women’s Union are dissatisfied with the high proportion of men in the new Union faction. “With a share of women of 23.5 percent in the Union parliamentary group, we cannot be satisfied,” said the chairwoman of the women’s union, Annette Widmann-Mauz, of the Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft. Only the AfD parliamentary group has an even lower proportion of women in the new Bundestag. Widmann-Mauz called for fundamental changes. “The structural questions in the CDU are still unresolved. That is still on the agenda,” she said, referring to proposals such as women’s quotas or electoral lists with equal representation.
Only a few state associations of the Union, including the CSU in Bavaria, had set up parity lists for the federal election last Sunday. However, this list did not come into play because all the seats were filled by direct mandate.
6:58 am
Social associations demand measures for education and against child poverty
In view of the exploratory talks between the FDP and the Greens, social organizations appeal to the parties to do more for better education and against child poverty. “We now need a wake-up call for better and fairer education. It is the key to more justice – and to a stable, fair social security system”, said the president of the social association VdK, Verena Bentele, the newspapers Funke media group. She called on the Greens and the FDP to insist on a 100-day package of measures in a coalition agreement, “which will launch a real educational initiative: basic child security, comprehensive all-day schooling and schools that are staffed and financially equipped so that all children are independent Give them the best starting conditions for lifelong learning from their parents. “
The President of the German Children’s Fund, Thomas Krüger, expects the new government to “move towards a child-friendly Germany”. In addition to sustainable climate policy and digitization, this also includes “an ambitious social policy that primarily promotes the fight against child poverty and better legal safeguards for children’s rights in Germany”.
06:44 am
Göring-Eckardt against coalition with the Union
Green parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt speaks out clearly against a Jamaica alliance with the Union. “I don’t see at the moment that the Union could be considered fit for exploration, let alone fit for government,” she told the newspapers of the Funke media group. She is always of the opinion that no option should be ruled out among the democratic parties. But when looking at the state of the CDU, she currently does not see how a coalition with the CDU and CSU should go. “The whole store is obviously not prepared for the time after Merkel,” said Göring-Eckardt.