Red-green-red in Berlin | With horror stories against red-green-red

Leftists as new Nazis: Banner at the Junge Union's "Germany Day" on Sunday in Bonn Photo: dpa/Christoph Reichwein After the Wagenknecht faction left the Left Party, the latter had a few years of relative peace when it came to the horseshoe theory. According to this, there are many similarities between the “political fringes”, i.e. between the far right and the far left. According to the theory, both poles are equally a threat to “democracy” and freedom.

Since the Left in Berlin prepared to become the strongest force in the House of Representatives elections in Berlin and then to implement a referendum on the socialization of apartments, the horseshoes and “left-wing extremism” started again. According to key players from the CDU and CSU, the latter represents the Left - at least its Berlin regional association. And according to statements from Union politicians up to the Chancellor, it is of course more dangerous than the nationalist AfD. No wonder: the latter doesn't want the super-rich's wallets or ownership of real estate companies.

The campaigns of CDU and CSU people reached their lowest point at the weekend at the so-called Germany Day of the Junge Union (JU), the independent youth organization of both parties. The delegates unanimously passed a motion in which Berlin should be excluded from information from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) if there is a coalition between the Left Party, the Greens and the SPD. They also called for such a Berlin alliance to be “socially ostracized.” A committee at the federal level is also necessary “to document breaches of the law and perversions of the law” by the Berlin government.

»The SPD and the Greens are not allowed to hold talks with such left-wing radicals and are certainly not allowed to enter into a coalition. This is not permitted to protect our democracy.”

At the same time, a huge banner was emblazoned over the JU stage, which read: “Never again is now!” On the left of the picture is an election poster for the Berlin Left, and on the right is a portrait of a young person whose head is covered except for the eyes with a keffiyeh, also known as a Palestinian scarf. The suggestion here is that life for Jews in Berlin is no longer safe under a government led by the left because anti-Semitic leftists and migrant “Israel haters” threaten them. At the same time, campaigns against a red-green-red state government are declared to be acts of anti-fascist struggle, a lesson from the atrocities of the Hitler regime.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said at the JU congress that the SPD and the Greens “should not hold talks with such left-wing radicals and should not even enter into a coalition.” This is “not permissible to protect our democracy.”

The Left federal chairwoman Ines Schwerdtner commented that the JU's decisions meant "nothing at all." Normally she “doesn’t comment on carnival clubs” like the JU, she said on Monday in Berlin. But their “Never again is now” towards the left, of all people, is an “outrage.” In addition to Jews, it was primarily socialists and communists who were murdered by the Nazis.

Numerous federal politicians as well as well-known former ministers and members of the Bundestag from the SPD and Greens have also expressed huge reservations about a red-green-red state government in Berlin. Most recently, on Monday, 21 Social Democratic members of the Bundestag published a statement entitled “Our values ​​compass is non-negotiable” at the initiative of interior and security expert Sebastian Fiedler. Subtitle: “No to coalition negotiations with the Berlin Left.”

"The Union devalues ​​the concept of extremism and blurs the distinction between it and the enemies of the constitution when it lumps the Left and the AfD together."

Immediately after the election on September 20th, the incumbent Senator for the Interior, Iris Spranger, was also concerned about security in Berlin with a Senate led by the Left. But she can now easily imagine continuing her office under a left-wing mayor Elif Eralp.

Spranger also sharply criticized the Junge Union. "Anyone who seriously calls for security-relevant information to be withheld from our capital is endangering the work of our security authorities for the people of Berlin and the protection of state and federal properties," she said on Monday. “The cooperation between the federal and state governments in internal security and the fight against terrorism must not be a party conference bluster and should not be a party-political bargaining chip,” continued Spranger. She called on the Union to distance itself from “such undemocratic statements by its youth association.”

However, the domestic policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Alexander Throm, also commented in this direction. He believes it is necessary to review the transfer of confidential information to Berlin. Especially when it comes to information about “left-wing extremism” and organized crime, it is important to carefully consider which data can be shared.

Bremen's mayor Andreas Bovenschulte also spoke out against the JU's decisions. A red-green-red coalition also governs in Bremen, albeit under the leadership of Bovenschulte's SPD. The Bremen head of government called on the Union to "get out of its completely irrational and irresponsible hysteria mode." He found it "hard to endure what the Union is currently doing - from the Federal Chancellor to the Bavarian Prime Minister to the Junge Union," Bovenschulte told the "Tagesspiegel" on Tuesday. "The Union devalues ​​the concept of extremism and blurs the distinction between it and the enemies of the constitution when it lumps the Left and the AfD together."

Bovenschulte accused the Union of relativizing what might be imminent in Saxony-Anhalt: a takeover of government by the AfD, which is classified as firmly right-wing extremist in the state. "But that would be something completely different than a takeover of government by democratic parties that are simply pursuing a program that you personally find wrong," said the Bremen head of government.

Meanwhile, Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche followed up. Before the federal government's investment summit on Tuesday, the CDU politician said that she saw a red-green-red state government as a "threat for the location" that went far beyond Berlin. The left not only speaks openly about expropriation and socialization, but also makes this a condition for a coalition. In addition, the party tolerates “manifest anti-Semitism” and anti-Israel people in its ranks.

Reiche called on the SPD and the Greens to "take advantage" of other options for forming a majority in Berlin - i.e. to form a coalition with her CDU, which lost almost ten percentage points of approval in the House of Representatives election. The minister emphasized that she grew up in the GDR and knew how a state collapsed because of "disrespect for private property."

"If you can expropriate for roads or railway lines, then you can also expropriate so that people live in good conditions."

During their exploratory talks in Berlin, the Left, the Greens and the SPD agreed on a preliminary roadmap for the socialization of large real estate groups with more than 10,000 residential units in their portfolio. In total, 160,000 apartments are to be bought from the companies concerned for up to 16 billion euros and managed in public hands. The acquisition is to be financed through rental income.

The Left recently achieved success at the Federal Constitutional Court because of an Instagram video by Reiche. The minister must first remove the video published on her ministry's profile from the Instagram platform, the highest German court in Karlsruhe decided, thereby granting an urgent application from the Left. In it, Reiche made similar statements as he does now.

Meanwhile, Juso boss Philipp Türmer has criticized the federal government's plans to pass a law intended to prevent socialization projects in Berlin. In his opinion, the “Investment Protection Act” announced by Federal Construction Minister Verena Hubertz (SPD) is unconstitutional, said the chairman of the SPD youth organization on Monday in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”. Article 15 of the Basic Law guarantees the federal states that they can socialize properties.

In the RTL and n-tv program " Frühstart ", Türmer emphasized that socialization was a legitimate means of regaining state control over the housing market. “And if you can expropriate for roads or railway lines, then you can also expropriate so that people live in good conditions,” said the politician. Housing is a human right and what private housing companies are doing with it is completely unacceptable. 

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