In the dispute over the delivery of battle tanks to Ukraine, SPD leader Lars Klingbeil criticized “cross-shots” by politicians from the FDP and the Greens and suggests that the party leaders of the coalition partners should intervene. “I know what I would do as party leader if my party kept throwing cross shots like this,” Klingbeil said at a press conference in Berlin on Monday. “I would talk to the relevant people. That doesn’t reflect well on your own party leadership if there are always people around.”
Klingbeil criticized the “excited debates (…) to the point of insults” in recent days. “The greatest favor we can do for Vladimir Putin is that we are currently dividing in the western alliance, in German politics.”