Imagine it is election night in Berlin and the Greens will not be needed to govern after September 26th.
Not even as a junior partner of the Union or an SPD, whose chancellor candidate Scholz already sees “momentum” for a social democratic overtaking maneuver in the direction of “20 Plus” in view of the downward trend in the Greens survey.
In Saxony-Anhalt, this nightmare will come true for the Greens.
Instead of muddling along with the SPD as the smallest parliamentary group in a fragile Kenya coalition that the CDU disliked, the Greens, as the opposition in Magdeburg, may be allowed to critically accompany the second “Germany coalition” in a federal state after 1951.
Black-red-yellow is the name of the new political color combination of CDU, SPD and FDP, which arouses nostalgic feelings in some.
After the supposedly good old West German times before 1983, when a clear three-party system guaranteed one or the other change of power in the federal and state governments with stable majorities (up to 1969).
When neither the Greens nor more extreme parties on the left and right in many state parliaments allowed complicated tripartite alliances to become part of everyday political life. Is a “Germany coalition” also suitable as a model of government for Germany? 100 years ago, a similar constellation could not ensure the stability of the Weimar Republic. This danger no longer exists today. Also thanks to the CDU, SPD and FDP.