Young Union calls for 'ostracism' of Berlin left alliance – SPD and Greens decide today
The CDU/CSU youth wing wants Berlin cut off from intelligence information. Today the SPD and Greens in Berlin vote on coalition talks with the Left party.
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The Junge Union (JU), the youth wing of the CDU/CSU, unanimously adopted a motion on Sunday at its national congress in Bonn against the planned alliance of the Left, Greens and SPD in Berlin. It demands that a left-led state government be excluded from sensitive information from the domestic intelligence agency and the Federal Criminal Police Office. The JU also calls for the social 'ostracism' of the alliance, which it calls a 'cultural break', and a body to document possible breaches of the rule of law.
CSU leader Markus Söder called the motion 'absolutely necessary'. JU chairman Johannes Winkel warned that if the federal SPD did not join the Union in opposing housing socialisation, 'we have a very fundamental problem in the coalition'. Chancellor Friedrich Merz had already urged the SPD and Greens on Saturday not to take this path.
In Berlin the process continues regardless: the SPD decides on Monday in a digital meeting of its state executive, while the Greens have called a small party congress for 8pm. SPD politician Steffen Krach said he was 'very optimistic' of approval. The Left, which won the 20 September election with 25.7 percent, decides at a party congress on 31 October; negotiations could start in early November.