The FDP and the CDU/CSU opposition are also silent allies in the dispute over “citizen money”.
The reactions of the liberals to the "blockade" in the Bundesrat sounded noticeably more moderate than the exaggerated outrage displayed by the SPD and the Greens.
The FDP hoped that they could turn up their concern – more additional income opportunities – again.
Now FDP Secretary General Djir-Saai has followed suit in line with the opposition.
The traffic light should let the “trust time” – the time without sanctions – go completely.
This does not affect the core of citizen income, the priority of vocational training over placement.
But it is a matter close to the heart of the SPD and the Greens.
Incidentally, the advance distracts from the FDP's interest in defending the generously dimensioned "protected assets" in the interest of their clientele.
The CDU and CSU also want to change that.
Is it because of the "abyssal image of man" (Esken) that unites Christian Democrats and Liberals in spouting socio-political "nonsense" (Scholz)?
With such accusations, the SPD is trying to accuse the CDU and CSU of “neoliberal” thinking, as they thought they themselves had been infected by Schröder’s social reforms.
That's why there is citizen money at all.
But the dividing line runs elsewhere.
The citizen of the FDP is far closer to the Union's Christian image of man than the chocolate citizen cultivated by the social romanticism of the SPD and the Greens.
This harbors conflicts, mainly disputes about methods, but ultimately they want the same thing.
An agreement on citizen income should therefore be possible quickly.