Strategy of the Greens: Habeck gives Grün-Rot-Rot a discreet refusal

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It is not very likely that Robert Habeck will be Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of this presumably nerve-wracking and exciting election year.

On the one hand, Annalena Baerbock will prevent him from doing so, who has so far made no move to let her partner at the top of the Greens take precedence in the candidacy for chancellor.

On the other hand - if Baerbock actually changes his mind - it is also rather unlikely that the Greens will do better than the Union on September 26th.

For Grün-Rot-Rot, on the other hand, Habeck would not even be available as Federal Chancellor if he took himself seriously.

Already because of the latter, not yet completely common knowledge, it is a gain to write the new book of the co-chairman of the Greens for a time - admittedly not for a very short time - "From here to different".

This hides - also - a 362-page plea against green-red-red or red-green-red experiments.

Habeck's view of the milieus drifting apart

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From Habeck's point of view, a coalition with the SPD and the Left would have an existential deficiency, despite all the content overlaps: The lack of a constant “social majority” to be regained day after day, not election year after election year.

Habeck describes this constant social majority - not the political and arithmetical majority in a parliamentary election - as a necessary condition for a successful policy in these times of crisis.

As an indisputable prerequisite for those political reforms which, in his view, are needed to keep the divergent milieus of the republic at least to some extent together.

And that, Habeck thinks, should be the goal of the next federal government.

"In my opinion, the political task of our time is not to start a revolution (...), but to renew the foundations of trust."

"We see how important public spaces are"

The Greens chairman Robert Habeck announced that his party wants to advocate “massive investment in public spaces”.

There is a "great emphasis on investment in education".

Source: WORLD

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Even during his time as Minister of the Environment and Agriculture in Schleswig-Holstein, he had therefore given the slogan "that we wanted a social majority behind us in every relevant point".

A claim that is not only equivalent to a Herculean task in view of the enormous challenges at the federal level.

For an alliance on the left that excludes the conservative camp from responsibility and is foreseeably further dividing society, Habeck's social and climate reform projects would be unworkable.

The 50-year-old is, for all his propensity to philosophize, a real politician.

In order to implement at least parts of the policy that he outlined in his book, he would need the Union.

Or at least the FDP.

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Supporters of the Free Democrats will read “From here on different” with a certain surprise anyway - and not only because of the bourgeois, dignified language in which the work is written.

Habeck makes advances to his longstanding political opponent, pointing to similarities between “economic neoliberalism and cultural left-wing liberalism”, which only apparently contradicted each other in the 1990s and 2000s.

In truth, according to Habeck, presumably to the displeasure of some readers from his own party, both worldviews “fit together quite well”.

Open markets to open society, globalization to cultural diversity.

And both, the Greens boss thinks, are in their own way responsible for the current split in society - into beneficiaries and losers of globalization and individualized freedom;

into those who have benefited culturally and economically from the pace of the past two decades and those who have overwhelmed this pace.

In this respect, the conclusion is obvious, after the federal election, the FDP and the Greens could also work together to repair the republic, which has also slipped through the corona pandemic;

be it with the CDU / CSU, be it with the SPD as the third party in the league.

Habeck, whose declared aim is to replace the Social Democrats as the leading force of the left-wing camp, does not leave too much space for the SPD in terms of content.

Like Olaf Scholz in his book "Hoffnungsland", Robert Habeck also pleads for a financial and ideal upgrading of non-academic professions as a tried and tested means of preventing further division of society into winners and losers of globalization, digitization and individualization.

Like the Social Democrats, Habeck also wants to replace Hartz IV and replace it with a new system of social security, which he calls "guarantee promise".

As a means to an end, the Greens boss presents the model of a "negative income tax", which would be paid to non-earners as a basic income, while everyone else would be deducted from the tax liability - at this point at the latest, Free Democrats and Greens would presumably meet in coalition negotiations but get powerful in your hair.

WELT interview with party leader Robert Habeck

When the Greens gather for the party congress in Bielefeld, they can look back on a highly successful year so far, but what about the Greens and economic policy?

In an interview with WELT, he explains where Robert Habeck sees his party on this issue.

Source: WELT / Sebastian Honekamp