The allegation of sexual assaults in the Left Party must be cleared up quickly and completely.

The aura of an emphatically feminist party, in which any kind of gender oppression has no place, is damaged for years to come.

This also applies if it is "only" about serious misconduct by individual officials.

The left will have to bear with this scandal for a long time, the details of which are not yet clear.

Regardless of whether and what criminal consequences there should be in the end.

The damage to credibility is enormous.

In the state capital, the Greens, SPD and Volt will not be unhappy that the coalition agreement with the left has not yet been negotiated.

Actually, the details for a progressive Wiesbaden coalition should have been agreed by Easter, the political guidelines for which the four-party alliance set at the end of last year with the decision on the double budget.

The Wiesbaden left has expressed understanding for the cancellation of the upcoming negotiations.

However, it remains unclear what further behavior, what level of clarification and what consequences are expected from the left in order to return to the negotiating table.

It is likely that the Greens, SPD and Volt each have their own different ideas.

Cards are reshuffled

Such differences also exist with regard to the head of the social affairs department, who has been under criticism for a long time.

So far, there hasn't been an open discussion in Wiesbaden about how Christoph Manjura and his party, the SPD, should actually react if the many scandals surrounding workers' welfare were dealt with and there were to be charges or a penalty order.

In this case, the investigative work lies with the public prosecutor.

Whether a new alliance will come together in Wiesbaden this year under these omens seems unlikely.

The cards are being reshuffled in the state capital.

So far, however, neither the CDU nor the FDP seem ready for a fresh start in local politics.

You have apparently made yourself comfortable on the opposition bench.

From the point of view of the CDU, it is obvious to call for the coalition negotiations to be broken off.

But the CDU did not submit an offer for a stable majority.

Politically, the state capital has to prepare for a deadlock.