+++ Bundespolitik +++: Berliner SPD für Koalitionsgespräche mit Linke und Grünen

Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer has warned against a potential coalition between Berlin's SPD, the Greens, and the Left. Weimer told Bild that an SPD-led government in Berlin would betray the Democrats' commemorative consensus in two ways. First, the Left party, according to Weimer, would open the door to antisemitism. He emphasized that it is unacceptable for such an attitude to govern in Berlin, where the Holocaust was planned and executed.

Secondly, the Left party would undermine the reckoning with SED's wrongdoing in the GDR. The Junge Union, a right-wing youth organization, is demanding the exclusion of the regional government from Constitutional Protection and the Federal Criminal Police Office information in a possible coalition of the Left, Greens, and SPD. They also propose a federal-level body to document legal misconduct and abuses by the Berlin government.

Moreover, they urge the immediate implementation of the planned ban on associations by a federal law. The Junge Union considers a rot-grün-roter coalition a cultural break that would require societal ostracism of the government. The Left, Greens, and SPD in Berlin concluded their exploratory talks on Saturday and now intend to enter coalition talks.

The Junge Union, with around 90,000 members, calls itself the largest political youth organization in Europe.