So they have come to an agreement, the SPD and the BSW in Brandenburg. They had no other choice, given the way the election turned out. An election outcome for which the SPD and especially the Prime Minister are primarily responsible.
This responsibility: After Dietmar Woidke’s heated, some say “ego-centered” election campaign, the democratic center has been shredded. The Greens, FDP, Left, all gone, the CDU weakened, but the AfD significantly strengthened. And accepted everything with approval.
The Social Democrats now have the spirits that called them. The BSW: not just any party, no, a constellation with hand-picked members that is completely tailored to the leader. The former Federal Commissioner for Eastern Affairs, Marco Wanderwitz, called them “National Bolsheviks”. And East West conscience Wolf Biermann sees the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance as a “personality cult party” and “legitimate heirs of the Stalin era”. The Republic has never experienced anything like this.
SPD and BSW, it looks like it will be an alliance of its own kind. In the end, hand it over – if that doesn’t bring back memories. As Prime Minister, Manfred Stolpe was accused of wanting to turn Brandenburg into a small GDR. Successor Woidke can get closer to the matter with the BSW.
Stephan-Andreas Casdorff is editor of the Tagesspiegel. He hopes that the SPD in Brandenburg knows exactly what responsibility it is taking on.
And how: with power. The manner in which his previous deputy prime minister, the Green Ursula Nonnemacher, was dismissed from her position as health minister shows this. This wasn’t just a lack of political culture. But a pure demonstration: Look, this is how it works, I am Brandenburg. How did Woidke say? He “doesn’t allow himself to be fooled”.
Habeck finds this unbelievable
The Obergrüner Robert Habeck finds this “unbelievable”. There is much to suggest that he is right. Because it’s incredibly human, anyway, but also political. This is about more than just the aesthetics of the appearance. Habeck sums it up: “The dismissal is a warning sign: This is what happens when an SPD Prime Minister offers himself to Sahra Wagenknecht’s alliance in anticipation of a coalition.”
Once again: Woidke overturns a Green party that supports an SPD law, and does so in this way. Shortly before her speech in the Federal Council, he fired the 67-year-old woman from Falkensee. In the hallway of the conference building, the Prime Minister hands her the discharge papers. Truly unbelievable.
And Lauterbach thanked him
It wasn’t just that Woidke violated the coalition agreement – it was a deliberate humiliation. How ironic that Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, a social democrat like Woidke, praises Nonnemacher’s commitment to his hospital reform. Who made it without this farce.
Dietmar Woidke has loaded himself up with a lot. The exhilaration of victory will certainly fade with time. It’s always like that. And then the troubles of the plain have to be overcome. Only one person is lost.
Who else contradicts Woidke?
Who will he listen to, who is it that still contradicts him? His three K, Katrin Lange, Kathrin Schneider, Kathrin Ortlieb-Schern? Obviously not. And parliamentary group leader Daniel Keller from the school of Johannes Kahrs (“House of Kahrs”) is doing politics on his own account.
Questions of style are also questions of leadership, right? Whether Brandenburg’s leadership has the style that is conducive to democracy is questionable today if you let the case sink in: Nonnemacher sacrificed to win Wagenknecht. You can think like that.
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It’s not just party politicians in the Wagenknecht cabinet for “expert government” after the election. Coalition agreement should be finalized this week. SPD and BSW in Brandenburg are clearing out all points of contention. “Our enemy’s ground is burning.” The use of long-range missiles is apparently forcing Russia to change tactics
Especially since Ukraine policy is now being made in their spirit, Russophile. Even the Thuringian BSW state chairwoman Katja Wolf was braver than the Brandenburg Social Democrats.
At the moment it seems that anyone who is not for the Social Democrats is against them. Where is the respectful cooperation and mutual respect? This question still needs to be answered. In an alliance with the BSW, the SPD has more responsibility than ever for the political level. And last but not least, Dietmar Woidke will have to be measured by this.
