Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann considers a black-green coalition in Bavaria to be feasible. “It also works well in Hesse, in North Rhine-Westphalia or in Schleswig-Holstein. And I’m sure it would work in Bavaria too,” said the head of a green-black government Augsburg General (Saturday).
“Of course you have to want that. An alliance that you don’t want is always difficult.” You could always look for the largest possible intersections, said Kretschmann. “I never did that.” The decisive question must be which alliance develops the best dynamics for the country. “Baden-Württemberg benefits from a productive tension in the transformation to an ecological economy of the future,” he said. “In Bavaria, on the other hand, the principle of intersection rules.”
He is firmly convinced that it is a great advantage to rule across traditional camps. “We are facing the major challenges of climate change and the loss of species. We have to decouple economic growth from the consumption of nature,” said Kretschmann. “It’s about ecologically impregnating economic policy and making ecology an economic success.” The CDU is a business-oriented party, the Greens are a nature-oriented party. “That’s why this coalition fits in well with the times.”
Regarding the way Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) dealt with the Greens, Kretschmann said: “I think that colleague Söder is overstating his criticism. But you shouldn’t always take that one-to-one. It’s an election campaign. There’s always a bit Bavarian liturgy there.” With Katharina Schulze and Ludwig Hartmann, the Bavarian Greens have two personalities at the top who do constructive work oriented towards the cause and who promise nothing that cannot be implemented in the government.
“But I’m a bit too far away to give you recommendations,” said Kretschmann. “As I said, Bavaria has its own political liturgy. “In any case, I couldn’t afford it twice in Baden-Württemberg to say something completely different one year and one year later. Apparently nobody in Bavaria is very upset about it.”