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This is certainly not how Berlin’s new governing mayor imagined taking office. The fact that Kai Wegner, a few weeks ago the surprising and glorious winner of the election, failed twice in the election to the highest government office in the capital shows the deep distrust of this black-red coalition, right down to the official level of the Berlin SPD. It has to be remembered once again: the previous Senate, made up of SPD, Greens and Left Party, could have continued after the February election, albeit with somewhat less approval. However, the previous Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey, as frontwoman of the right wing of the SPD, gave up her office and the political projects associated with Red-Green-Red and served her party almost single-handedly to the CDU, which could easily have been left sitting in the opposition . An unprecedented event.
What the Giffey SPD saved: many posts, because now only two parties have to share political influence, not three. What she dropped: the option for a social, progressive urban policy. This is how priorities are set.
In any case, it is clear what to think of this black and red senate – also with a view to the narrow membership decision in the Berlin SPD: According to the will of Wegner and the SPD front people Giffey and Saleh, something should grow together here, which is not belongs together. The fact that the AfD faction, as they now claim, ultimately donated the saving votes to Wegner would fit into the picture. Because it doesn’t matter whether that’s true or just showing off by the right-wing populists: Anyone who moves politics to the right must expect applause from the far right. And that stigma will stick to Wegner and Giffey.
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