Green parliamentary group leader Dröge advocates green-red-red in the federal government

Green parliamentary group leader Katharina Dröge has spoken out in favor of a three-party coalition between her party and the SPD and the Left at the federal level. “Green-red-red would agree on many social issues and hopefully also on climate protection,” said Dröge in an interview with “Zeit”, according to the advance report from Sunday. “We could achieve a lot here, and a large part of the country would say: Cool, something is finally happening.”

There are “large social majorities” for “social issues such as the fair taxation of extremely high assets, regulation for affordable rents or the fight against child poverty,” said Dröge. “The center actually ticks to the left.”

Dröge accused Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) of organizing a “redistribution from bottom to top” with his current reform policy. Nevertheless, black-green would still be an option for them: “Only black-green and green-red-red would be governments with their own narrative of departure,” said the parliamentary group leader. “If the Union and the SPD govern together, they are only managing the standstill.”

With her statements, Dröge is reacting to current survey values, which currently see the Greens at between 14 and 16 percent, with the SPD and the Left both a short distance behind. In purely mathematical terms, this brings us closer to a left-wing majority in the federal government.

Meanwhile, at the state level there was progress over the weekend in Berlin towards a possible three-party coalition led by the Left. The Berlin regional associations of the Left, the Greens and the SPD agreed on Saturday at a second meeting after the election “on a further common path,” according to an identical statement that the three parties distributed on Saturday. “In the coming week we will bring the current discussions to a conclusion,” it continued.

On Saturday, the parties initially left it open what this “result” might consist of. It would be conceivable that this could be a decision to officially start red-green-red exploratory talks with the aim of joint coalition negotiations.

The aim of the two preliminary discussions on Thursday and Saturday was to clarify whether the conditions for such exploratory discussions were met. Among other things, the left's attitude to anti-Semitism, organized crime and left-wing extremism should be addressed.

The Left clearly won the House of Representatives election on September 20th. Top candidate Elif Eralp then announced that she would aim for a government with the Greens and the SPD. In addition to a red-green-red coalition, an alliance of the second-placed CDU with the Greens and SPD would also have a majority.

There are several points of contention between the Left, the Greens and the SPD. The left is accused of being partly anti-Semitic and of having contacts with the criminal milieu. The SPD also criticizes the party's plans to expropriate large housing companies.

Federal Economics Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU) warned the SPD and the Greens against an alliance with the Left in Berlin. She told “Bild am Sonntag” that she feared nationwide losses in growth if there was a red-red-green alliance in the capital. “What the Left represents here in Berlin and the people they represent is not only dangerous for Berlin, but for our country,” warned Reiche. “It is a danger for Germany as an investment location and as a business location.”

Investors are paying close attention to whether Germany is serious about protecting property and freedom, Reiche warned. That’s why other left-wing parties “under no circumstances should lend a hand to seize power here.” Growing up in the GDR, Reiche emphasized, she “saw firsthand how family businesses were run down after nationalization and expropriation.” “Expropriation, socialism or even communism lead to impoverishment, impoverishment and totalitarianism.”