The SPD votes in favor of staying in the great German coalition to choose it to the left

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• Germany The German Social Democrats confirm in the SPD presidency the duo elected in primary

All for nothing. The crusher that has become the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) this Friday shreds its heavyweights to end by putting in his presidency two strangers who went to a long and dull primary process with the proposal to leave the Government coalition .

In less than 48 hours they thought about it better and believed that the great coalition deserves a chance, so they will start talks with the CDU. The great defeated in the consultations to the militancy , the Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz, could not hide in the congress that yesterday started in Berlin his neglect and irritation towards those who, already in the dome, put on his shirt and appropriated his speech. And they have put an end to their political ambitions.

"Our ministers and ministers have done an excellent job in the Government. The balance of half of the legislature is positive, so the motion presented on the continuity of the great coalition must be put in another context, " Saskia Esken said shamelessly . His tandem in the two-headed and joint presidency that assumes the reins of the SPD, Norbert Walter-Borjans, tried to avoid the disappointment that Esken's speech could cause in the fishing grounds that gave them support by appealing to a calm discussion about the aspects to improve. "The review clause of the coalition agreements allows us to take stock of the work done with the intention of introducing corrections . And we will do it together," said Walter-Borjans to avoid a yes or no vote of the great coalition.

Also the leader of the Socialist Youths - the Jusos- Kevin Kühnert, the main mentor of the winning duo and agitator of the families to the left of the party, moderated his speech, although he asked for more ambitious policies in the fight against climate change , basic income and an increase in the minimum interprofessional salary. That means more resources in the development of clean energy, speed in the abandonment of coal, scheduled for 2038, and an increase of 9.19 euros per hour worked at 12 euros. For German conservatives, these demands have no place in the existing coalition agreement, which they do not consider should be modified for the simple reason that the partner changes leadership.

" The conservatives are never going to accept our demands and they are profound. The question therefore is whether we leave the coalition now and seek our way alone or stay the same," said Holde Mattheis, representative of the left wing and promoter of an initiative to force the Congress to vote on continuity in the Government.

Mattheis is not the only one who thinks that the association with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Social Democracy (CSU) has blurred the party's profile and plunged it into the basement of the polls. Mattheis lost. The congress refused to leave the government coalition and supported the proposal of the new dome to seek talks with the conservative CDU to undertake new projects in the executive. The SPD would manage to hold elections now 14% of the support, behind the CDU-CSU (27%) and Los Verdes (22%). Without a pull leadership, in permanent dispute and with an ideology that increasingly resembles the party of the Left and the Greens, analysts agree that if the SPD goes to the opposition, it could fall below 10%. The existential crisis against which the party fights would end in irrelevance .

The new hopes of the SPD, Walter-Borjans and Esken, were confirmed in the congress that yesterday started in Berlin as presidents of the party. It was the duo chosen by the militancy in a process of primaries that the apparatus had not set in motion if it had known how it would end. They obtained 89.2% and 75.9% respectively of the 626 delegates.

They are support quotas lower than those achieved by those who preceded them, including Martin Schulz and Andrea Nahles, but they hide the little enthusiasm that the couple arouses, a couple of strangers with no experience in federal management whose main asset has been to criticize the coalition of Government and have the support of Kühnert.

Walter-Borjans and Esken imposed themselves on the duo headed by the Minister of Finance, Olaf Scholz, the only social democrat of political weight in the race, with 53% of the votes against 45%. There were eight points of difference, but only 54% of the militancy participated in the vote, after 23 regional conferences throughout the country to mobilize and connect with affiliates.

The national casting was a failure. And, if the vote was anonymous, sources from the SPD leadership assured this newspaper that the result of the primaries had also been reversed. The winners would not have survived, although it does not mean that they have done so. The SPD has had 10 presidents since 1991, not counting the managers. The elected presidents appeared, prior to the vote in the congress, with moderate messages. They decided to walk between two waters. They advocated "giving the great coalition a realistic option," leaving the incendiary speech to Kühnert.

The leader of the Jusos, following the script, did so, but his postulates are so close to the communist party that Labor Minister Hubertus Heil went out of his way to "prevent the SPD from drifting into a party for the proletariat."

Kühnert attends one of the three vice presidencies of the party. Heil, before the influence that the left, will already exercise with Walter-Borjans and Esken in the presidency also did it and, as the leader of the Jusos, he was elected.

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