Gearing up to German elections 2021 - Merkel’s coalition party SPD puts forward green agenda, struggles with credibility for supporting Nord Stream 2 construction
Gearing up to German elections 2021 - Merkel’s coalition party SPD puts forward green agenda, struggles with credibility for supporting Nord Stream 2 construction
@poVoq@lemmy.ml I also prefer politics based on principal to realpolitik. Still, I find this argument interesting, ie. the SPD is indeed taking some risk in putting all their money on a coalition with the Left and the Greens, a combination that according to “voting math” is not the most favorable option for them currently. Looks like they are ready to leave the CDU behind and they also don’t seem interested in the “traffic light coalition” option (SPD - Free Democrats - Greens : red - yellow - green).
The party base elected a quite left party leader duo and less then 10% of the party finances are coming from donations so that the external influence is comparatively low. So yes, I belive they honestly want change and they already did not want a coalition with the CDU after the last election. And when they were kind of forced into it they asked the party base and the result was quite tight. It’s never been a partnership based on sympathy.