The Left, the Greens and the SPD decide to conduct explorations – this is what the anti-Semitism declaration says

The Left, the Greens and the SPD in Berlin are starting exploratory talks to form a government. The three parties announced this two and a half weeks after the election to the Berlin House of Representatives.

In the tripartite “Berlin Agreement” from Thursday, which is available to WELT, the three parties declare Israel’s right to exist “non-negotiable”. They provide for a committee of experts and consequences “up to and including exclusion” for anti-Semitic incidents within their own ranks.

Senate members as well as elected officials and officials should ensure that violence and terror are neither glorified nor relativized and that Israel's right to exist is not questioned. “Everyone who takes responsibility for us guarantees this – both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate,” the paper says. If one of the parliamentary managing directors requests this, a committee of three experts from Berlin's urban society should evaluate an incident. The experts should be named by mutual agreement before the coalition agreement is approved. The affected parliamentary group then decides on the consequences according to its own statutes. “Bild” and “Tagesspiegel” report unanimously that in this context a person from the left should perhaps not be accepted into the parliamentary group.