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The formation of a coalition between red and pink, which Mayor Michael Ludwig and his future Vice President Christoph Wiederkehr have now officially declared, borrows from Germany in the late 1960s.
We know that after a biologist, a historian is now the mayor of Vienna. For Michael Ludwig, the temptation was too great to compare his red-rose coalition announced Monday with Germany’s social-liberal coalition. It has been a while. So is there a retro politics now?
In 1969, some of us remember, the national liberal coalition was started under the leader of the SPD, Willy Brandt. When it ended after more than a decade in 1982, the future pink deputy mayor of Vienna, Christoph Wiederkehr, was not even born. Does Michael Ludwig see himself as the new Willy Brandt?
“We want to dare more democracy,” Michael Ludwig quoted the phrase from Willy Brandt’s first government statement on Monday. Perhaps, as promised, the Neos finally managed to raise democratic standards in Vienna, including those related to control rights. Hopefully, and the opposite of retro politics.
By the way: Mayor Michael Ludwig deliberately left without mentioning that German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigned after just five years. You really don’t have to go overboard with historical references.
