Should the coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party in the “future capital Berlin” need a suggestion beyond all self-adulation about what it could possibly do better than in the past five years, then it would only have to remember September 26, 2021 .
On that day, the Senate and districts made a mockery of themselves in the eyes of the world for failing to guarantee the orderly conduct of the elections to the Bundestag, the House of Representatives, the district assemblies and the referendum on the expropriation of housing companies.
In this respect, the thought is not far off that the Berliners turned the goat gardener one more time on that day.
In fairness, however, it should not only be said that they had little choice.
In addition, the SPD top candidate Franziska Giffey had promised nothing less than a departure from urban politics that had been paralyzed by countless self-blockades.
They and their SPD senators should not only be measured by this claim, but should also check their actions themselves - and if the worst comes to the worst, have the courage to break out of the ideological corset, against the left, but also the Greens with unbroken ones Tinker with pleasure.
Only that would be a “new start” that deserves its name.