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Mike Szymanski, Berlin
SPD leader Lars Klingbeil knows how to pack his people, how to get them in the mood for this weekend. There he is now on Saturday on the stage in the former Kindl brewery in Berlin-Neukölln. He begins with what appears to be incidental information: Party colleagues from Lower Saxony cannot come because they have other things to do during these hours. After the success in the state elections in October, you would have to vote on the coalition agreement with the Greens. What is Klingbeil getting at? In Lower Saxony, he now shouts into the hall, “the last grand coalition in Germany is coming to an end.”