After the House of Representatives election in Berlin, CDU General Secretary Franziska Hoppermann sharply warned the Greens and the SPD against a coalition with the Left - and called on them to form an alliance with her party. "There is a different majority with the Union. The SPD and the Greens now have to decide for themselves whether they want to become the stirrup holders of left-wing extremists," Hoppermann told the "Rheinische Post". The Berlin Left is radical and anti-Semitic. The Left Party clearly won the election ahead of the CDU, which had previously governed together with the SPD.
The head of the CDU employee wing (CDA), Dennis Radtke, has called for a fundamental change in the planned care reform. “The care reform must not simply become another austerity law,” he told the Germany editorial network. “We need real structural changes so that people can continue to rely on the system in the future.”
Radtke demanded that “non-insurance benefits in particular” need to be “taken into account”. “Unfortunately, there was a lack of courage for this with the health care reform, even though this has been years overdue,” he said.
Statutory nursing care insurance is deeply in the red. The coalition therefore wants to initiate a major care reform. Federal Health Minister Carsten Linnemann (CDU) wanted to have his draft law passed by the cabinet on Wednesday. However, the plans met with widespread criticism. According to media reports, further talks within the coalition are planned for Monday.
On the show, Miosga addresses Habeck about a rumor that the two journalists Robin Alexander and Dagmar Rosenfeld reported in their political podcast “Machtwechsel”. Accordingly, there is speculation in political Berlin that Habeck and the former Transport Minister Volker Wissing (formerly FDP, now independent) could found a new party, possibly with someone who leaves the CDU. “This is something that is definitely haunting Berlin on a rumor level,” it says there.
Left leader Luigi Pantisano counters allegations that his party is anti-Semitic. He “absolutely” rejects this, says Pantisano in the ARD “Report from Berlin”. “We clearly stand on the side of Jewish people and are also committed to protecting Jewish life in Germany, in Berlin and everywhere else.” At the same time, the left is one of the few who dares to publicly criticize what is happening in Israel.
The chairman of the Junge Union and new deputy leader of the Union parliamentary group, Johannes Winkel (CDU), wants to pay migrants less social benefits. In Paul Ronzheimer's “Ronzheimer” podcast, Winkel calls for massive reform of the welfare state. When it comes to the amount of social benefits, the decisive factor should be whether someone has already paid into the system or not. Migrants would be particularly affected. “Is it actually okay for two people to receive the same amount of social benefits and one has never paid anything in before?” asks Winkel.
His demand: “Those who didn’t pay in before should get less.” The Junge Union leader makes it clear that he is not concerned with nationality, but that his demand would disproportionately affect migrants. "At a time when mass migration to Germany was allowed (...) when very, very many people ended up in the German social system, it of course makes a quantitative difference. That is of course undoubtedly correct." This has developed into a central justice problem.
In the dispute over the planned care reform, Carsten Linnemann rejected the SPD's demand for a “care cap”. “We would not solve the problem,” says the Federal Health Minister, referring to the planned savings in the ARD “Report from Berlin”. Linnemann calculates that the savings with the limit on pure care costs proposed by the SPD would only be around 300 euros, with a total personal contribution of up to an average of 4,000 euros per person affected and in a home.
The youth organization of the Berlin party Die Linke verbally attacked the police in connection with a demonstration and described them as a “criminal clan”. During the demonstration by students and other participants against conscription on Friday, “a criminal clan equipped with pistols, quartz gloves, batons and pepper spray” harassed the demonstrators, meaning “the Berlin police,” according to an Instagram post by Linksjugend Solid Berlin.
The young people would vote for a change in policy, against “continuing the rearmament and police violence with the SPD and the Greens,” it said on the Internet portal X. The Berlin Left wants to talk to the Greens and SPD about forming a government coalition.
Federal Health Minister Carsten Linnemann (CDU) calms down the dispute with the SPD over the planned care reform. “This is nothing unusual,” says Linnemann in the ARD “Report from Berlin”. When it came to the reform of statutory health insurance, “it was only familiarized and agreed upon two hours before the cabinet discussed it”. But the minister goes on to say about the dispute within the coalition: “Something like that should be done behind closed doors and not in front of the door.”
The Green Party leaders Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak want to remain at the top of the party. Separately, but at the same time, both announced that they would be running for a second term at the party conference at the beginning of December.
Banaszak said in a message to the party base that he was running again “to work with all of you to prepare our party for the next federal election.” Brantner wrote that she and Banaszak are running for co-chair again. “Together we can be the party that people trust to move this country forward.” The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” had previously reported.
The chairman of the Junge Union, Johannes Winkel, warns the CDU of its downfall. “If it doesn’t change fundamentally, there will be no reason to vote for the CDU,” said the newly elected CDU parliamentary group deputy in an interview with “Bild”. "Parties that don't change die. Quite simply."
The 34-year-old attested that the CDU and SPD have a “weird self-image” that can only be explained by the fact that the parties have taken turns in the Chancellery for 80 years. But: "There is no eternal guarantee for the popular parties CDU and SPD in the Basic Law. Even if there have been many crises over the last 80 years," said the chairman of the CDU's young generation.
