Berlin’s governing mayor: Giffey wants to propose a coalition between the SPD and the CDU

The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Giffey, wants to propose a black-red coalition to the SPD state executive tomorrow. That experienced that ARD Capital Studio. The CDU had won the repeat election to the House of Representatives.

Berlin’s governing mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) wants to propose a coalition with the CDU to the SPD state executive tomorrow. That experienced that ARD Capital Studio. An SPD spokesman did not want to confirm this in the evening, according to the AFP news agency: There is still no preference for a party, he said. The state board will decide at its meeting on Wednesday afternoon. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” reported: If the board does not agree to the proposal, Giffey will resign as SPD state chairman.

The editorial network Germany (RND), citing party circles, reported that the Berlin CDU would also tend to the black-red alliance. If this coalition were to form, Giffey would lose her position as governing mayor to CDU top candidate and election winner Kai Wegner. She herself could therefore become part of a new government as a senator.

CDU won with 28.2 percent

The Christian Democrats met with the Greens for the third time today, and the third meeting with the SPD took place on Friday. At the same time, the SPD and the Greens also spoke three times with their previous coalition partner, the Left Party, about continuing their alliance. So far, no one has publicly expressed a preference.

The CDU clearly won the repeat election for the House of Representatives on February 12 with 28.2 percent, the SPD and the Greens each had 18.4 percent – the Social Democrats had a lead of only 53 votes over the Greens.