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The statements in Tagesspiegel’s interview with future SPD state presidents Franziska Giffey and Raed Saleh were criticized by many Berlin comrades. The repeated attempt to determine in the public media the electoral manifesto of the Berlin Social Democrats for the House of Representatives election in the fall of 2021 was poorly received by the party base, party circles said on Monday.
It is noted that this electoral program is also developed in a broad process of internal party discussion, organized by an editorial working group of the state association SPD.
Party friends Giffey and Saleh say the party will not simply endorse what the party’s designated leadership pretends to be with outward statements. For many delegates at the October 31 election conference, “the mood is charged.” Hard debates can be expected there.
Hardly anyone can be cited by name with such assessments, only the new dual leadership of the Berlin Young Socialists spoke. “Members still write and adopt election schedules, just in case they have been forgotten,” Juso head of state Peter Maaß tweeted. Co-chair Sinem Tasan-Funke formulated this criticism as follows: “The SPD does not do its show in journalistic interviews.”
But there are also other voices from the party. Secretary of State for Science Steffen Krach (SPD), who will be moving to Hannover, tweeted: “Good thematic approaches and a clear demarcation with political competitors. That is part of the electoral campaign. “
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Saleh and Giffey’s remarks were not well received by coalition partners and the CDU. Culture Senator and Mayor Klaus Lederer (left) tweeted that he had “very difficult the impression that SPD Berlin wants to return to Berlin the day before yesterday. Where the world was still in order and the claims were already distributed. “
In any case, the language sounded like the nineties, Lederer said. “Now the question still remains: will an absolute majority be created.”
Left-wing state president Katina Schubert said she is “surprised that most of the SPD senators have already left the Senate team; Scheeres, Kalayci and Müller will stop.” It is not good to end this coalition in this style.
The electoral campaign mode arrives nine months before
“We are in a pandemic and we have a lot to do. Apparently Franziska Giffey no longer knows what is happening in Neukölln, ”said Schubert, referring to the negative position of the district councils of Neukölln and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg regarding the plans for the renovation of Karstadt at Hermannplatz.
The left asks for a dialogue with the neighbors. “What Giffey and Saleh say about it sounds like the old Social Democratic policy of Basta.” Also, a lot is being built in Berlin, Schubert responded to Saleh’s demand for more new buildings.
“It helps to get out of the company car and take a look at the new construction projects.” The fact that the SPD is now switching to election campaign mode is “definitely nine months earlier.”
The Berlin Greens prefer not to say anything
This is probably one of the reasons Green Top is diving. Neither party leaders Werner Graf and Nina Stahr nor top nominee Bettina Jarasch want to comment on the content of the interview with Saleh and Giffey.
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Only the mayor of the green district Monika Herrmann of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg declared on Twitter: “This clearly neoliberal turn is quite surprising for a social democratic candidate.”
The CDU’s top candidate and Berlin party leader Kai Wegner is shocked: “Ms. Giffey and Mr. Saleh are now realizing that they obviously have nothing to do with the government. Saleh has been the leader of the parliamentary group for nine years and is responsible for the previous course, from which he is now moving away. “
CDU criticizes sudden commitment to subway
In the Tagesspiegel, for example, Saleh and Giffey called for the departments of urban development and transportation to merge in the next Senate. Wegner responded that such a gigantic department was in the hands of the SPD from 1999 to 2016. Overall, he hoped “that this political style of the SPD will no longer be able to prevail after the next elections.”
Wegner is amazed that the SPD discovered the issue of construction and the love of the subway a year before the election. “During the grand coalition in 2016, it was decided to extend some of the underground lines. A few months later, however, the SPD did not want to know anything about this plan. I’m not buying the newfound love of the SPD. “
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Instead of taking responsibility now, the SPD goes “to the election campaign with the coalition partners.” That is irresponsible, especially in these times of crisis with Corona, where it is primarily about protecting health, livelihoods and jobs.
CDU Secretary General Stefan Evers spoke of a “filing for bankruptcy.” Giffey and Saleh’s “statements” can be read as a single statement of censure in the former red-red-green Senate. However, Evers denies that the SPD duo wants “a real policy change.”
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