Will the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) endorse the “coalition contract” that its management has negotiated with the conservatives of the CDU and the CSU in order to constitute a government? Until April 29, the 358,000 SPD members are called upon to vote online on the text, and all of Germany is suspended from the debates that agitate the party, which are likely to fail the agreement. But the conservatives, too, drag their feet in the face of a highly criticized roadmap for its lack of ambition. While open conflict subjects are multiplying, the future coalition seems weighted before the election of Friedrich Merz as the Chancellor, scheduled for May 6 at the Bundestag.
The juice, the organization of young social democrats with 70,000 members, were the first to announce that they would not vote in favor of the “coalition contract”. Philipp Türmer, their president, said that the compromise passed with the CDU-CSU, presented on April 11 in Berlin, was “Insufficient” on subjects such as migration policy or the imposition of the richest. “Basically, this is not what can bring the change in policy we need”said the 29 -year -old activist, who had already alerted to the need for a renewal within the party after the election of February 23. That day, the SPD had obtained a historically low score (16.4 %), in falling nine points compared to its 2021 result.
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Source: Lemonde