Berlin left: the uprising of the SPD domestic politicians against red-green-red

So far, the head of the SPD has largely kept out of the red-green-red soundings in the capital. You trust in the decisions of the top man Steffen Krach there, it is said again and again. But the domestic politicians of the Bundestag parliamentary group do not want to leave it with confidence: They advise against an alliance of left in the capital explicitly. We respect the decision-making authority of the Berlin SPD. As members of the SPD parliamentary group, we also see our responsibility for the credibility of common social democratic principles. Therefore, under the current conditions, we strongly oppose the opening of coalition negotiations with the Berlin left, the F.A.Z. said in an open letter. It bears the headline: “Our compass of values is never negotiable”. Twenty members of parliament have signed the document so far, including the group’s domestic policy spokesman, Sebastian Fiedler, the head of the conservative Seeheim circle, Esra Limbacher, and Daniel Baldy, who sits for the SPD in the parliamentary supervisory body, which controls the intelligence services. However, some prominent signatories are missing so far, such as party leader Lars Klingbeil, group leader Matthias Miersch or Sonja Eichwede, the deputy group leader responsible for domestic politics. No equating left and AfD Today, the SPD state board will decide in Berlin on the start of coalition talks; The Berlin Greens do this in the evening at a small party congress. On Sunday, parliamentary group leader Miersch said in the ARD that he still had “significant doubts” about the planned left alliance in view of the handling of anti-Semitism and clan crime. The SPD bears a great responsibility and must carefully consider with whom it works. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD), on the other hand, criticized the agreement in the exploratory paper, according to which in future no Bundeswehr soldiers in Berlin schools should talk about security policy. In the letter, the deputies first state that fundamental political values must always apply, “irrespective of coalition arithmetic”. The anti-Semitism incidents in the Berlin left and the contacts of individual members to criminal structures raised doubts about political reliability. In the agreement, the Left, the Greens and the SPD on the 8. They are self-evident – and even these are controversial within the left. The mere fact that actors from organised crime or terrorist organisations could gain political access damages trust. This makes our support for the police and security authorities all the more important, the letter says. Explicitly, the signatories do not want to equate the left with the AfD. Nor is the entire left problematic, but only the Berlin state association, it continues. The demand of the left to abolish the protection of the constitution – which was not included in the exploratory paper – has federal political effects. If implemented, it would affect the entire German security architecture.