Exciting things are happening in Berlin right now, and even some Bavarians feel a certain longing there. That is rare otherwise, because people prefer to make fun of the airport or the chaos on election day. And anyway, the beer in the Free State is more palatable, the Kini more magical and the CSU more unthinkable.
However, it is precisely this aspect that has recently become – unheard of! – doubted. A survey recently even determined a conceivable majority in the state parliament without the CSU. And if the SPD, Greens and FDP now come together to form a traffic light in Berlin, then maybe that could also work in Bavaria?
“The traffic light is an attractive model for Bavaria too,” said SPD leader Florian von Brunn Passauer Neue Presse. That sounds a bit strange from the leader of the party that was recently seen closer to the five percent hurdle than to participation in government. But the Greens and the FDP are also familiar, whose parliamentary group leaders Katharina Schulze and Martin Hagen gave the Augsburger Allgemeine a double interview in which Hagen divulged that Schulze would rather drink Spezi than beer. Great mood in the opposition, which is determined not to stay there forever.
There are already images of Prime Minister Schulze, all in purple, taking the gun salute on patronage day of the mountain riflemen. And how Finance Minister Hagen from the FDP, in his role as head of the palace administration, glides through Linderhof’s Venus Grotto in a swan boat. And the resolutions first. Wind turbines and cycle paths for the Greens, all-day schools and social housing for the SPD, the FDP is allowed to cut bureaucracy and speed up the Internet. It all sounds very simple.
The idea is not entirely new; a colorful alliance in the government has already dreamed of. It was in 2013, it was to become a coalition of the SPD, the Greens and Free Voters. In the end, the SPD and its top candidate Christian Ude won only two percentage points more than the historically worst result of 2008, with Greens and Free voters losing votes instead of improving. And Horst Seehofer’s CSU triumphantly won back the absolute majority of the mandates. Impossible to think of. But there was still no traffic light coalition in the federal government.