Survey | Berliners want red-green-red

Berlin can no longer be fooled. Photo: dpa/Sebastian Gollnow 56 percent of German citizens would think it would be bad if the Left, the Greens and the SPD really formed the Berlin Senate - the ZDF political barometer now tells us. 51 percent of Berliners don't care - another opinion poll tells us that 25 percent would vote for the Left again, 14 percent for the Greens and 12 percent for the SPD. That's a mere 1.1 percent less than in the House of Representatives election on September 20th - a size that is negligible given the inaccuracy of surveys.

Many German citizens apparently don't even know that there was a red-red-green Senate from 2016 to 2021 and a red-red Senate from 2002 to 2014. In the past few days, they have not received a rent increase of 30 euros from a state-owned Berlin housing company or 85 euros from a private landlord before the Left, the Greens and the SPD were able to order a rent freeze at the state-owned companies. This would ultimately have a dampening effect on the rent index and could therefore benefit all tenants. Citizens outside of Berlin did not have to be annoyed that Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) went to play tennis while the southwest of the city had no electricity for days. You don't need the bike paths, which weren't built under Wegner. They don't see the garbage when they walk through the Brandenburg Gate as tourists. Because it doesn't look as dirty there as in many other places in the city.

Fortunately, the rest of the world doesn't care whether we Berliners would rather have Elif Eralp (Left Party) in the Red City Hall than Stefan Evers (CDU). She didn't promise him that she would clean up the trash and the rent mafia, but rather us.

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