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The SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken has spoken out in favor of a red-green-red coalition in the federal government under a Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) for the period after the federal election.

"The combination of the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party stands for a very progressive policy, even more so than the traffic lights," said Esken of the "Rheinische Post" with a view to a possible coalition of the SPD and the Greens with the FDP.

The decisive factor, however, is that "Scholz becomes chancellor," continued Esken.

"Nobody has to be afraid of red-red-green or red-green-red," said the SPD leader.

This is a "hackneyed campaign".

"Our goal is to become the strongest force in a left-progressive alliance with Olaf Scholz as head of government."

However, Esken also considers government participation under a green chancellorship to be a realistic scenario.

Esken admitted that she has often been criticized for this.

But she is also a realist.

To the current government partner, Esken said that cooperation with the Union was strained because it was in a "deep leadership crisis".

"It is time for the Union to switch to the opposition bench and recover there."

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Scholz has been the SPD's top candidate for months.

On April 19, the Green Board wants to propose who of the party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck should take over the candidacy for chancellor in the federal election on September 26.

The final decision will be made at the Green Party Congress from June 11th to 13th.

The grand coalition no longer has a majority in polls

The Union wants to decide by Pentecost at the latest who will stand as candidate for chancellor in the federal elections in September.

There is no exact date for the decision.

On Sunday there will be a closed meeting of the executive board of the parliamentary group.

It is expected that the exam could become a showcase for the two possible candidates for Chancellor Armin Laschet and Markus Söder.

Neither Laschet nor Söder have officially registered a candidacy so far.

According to a Kantar poll for “Bild am Sonntag”, the SPD would get 16 percent if there were general elections on Sunday.

The Union accounted for 26 percent.

The Greens stay at 23 percent and are the second strongest force.

The AfD would stay with ten percent, the Left Party with nine percent.

The FDP gives one point and reaches nine percent.

In purely mathematical terms, this would make a traffic light coalition of the Greens, SPD and FDP as well as an alliance of the Greens, SPD and Left Party possible.

The current grand coalition of the Union and SPD, on the other hand, would not have a majority.