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The Left in Berlin | Negotiating is never wrong
Berlin's left would have a hard time rejecting a Senate under their leadership before all options have been explored. A comment.
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It looms hazy on the horizon: the Left rules Berlin. Photo: dpa/Sebastian Christoph Gollnow After the numerous bad experiences with government participation by the Left in Berlin and other federal states, healthy skepticism is justified. But it would be wrong, as a matter of principle, not to take advantage of the unique opportunity to appoint the governing mayor of the capital and then do a lot of things well or even do everything better.
It is right that a special party conference for coalition negotiations with the Greens and SPD will be held on Saturday, even though the road up to this point has been quite bumpy. Because all possibilities should be explored to achieve a real policy change with red-green-red.
It may turn out in coalition negotiations that it wouldn't work with these three parties. Then the Left should definitely stay away from it and not look at all the nice posts and posts. But canceling the project before it can be said with certainty - that would be irresponsible, a denial of politics and fraud on the voters who are hoping for an improvement in their living conditions.
Even those who dislike the socialization of private housing stock from 10,000 apartments onwards instead of 3,000 quarters should actually have no objection to coalition negotiations. The Left, the Greens and the SPD already agreed on raising this lower limit from 3,000 to 10,000 in their exploratory talks. But what is crucial is what is actually in the coalition agreement afterwards - overall.
Then every Berlin comrade can decide for themselves whether that is not enough for them, whether they see a red line being crossed, whether they really would rather have Stefan Evers (CDU) as Governing Mayor - and then vote accordingly in the membership decision for or against the negotiated coalition agreement.
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