Left leader Schwerdtner criticizes Dröge's coalition plans

The Left Party leader Ines Schwerdtner has criticized Green Party leader Katharina Dröge's push for a red-red-green three-party coalition at the federal level. “The Left is not available to create a majority for power games,” said Schwerdtner. The Left leader expressed incomprehension that Dröge wants to keep open the option of a black-green alliance with the Union at the federal level.

“If Ms. Dröge considers a coalition with the CDU and the Left equally to be a narrative of departure, she has no compass,” criticized Schwerdtner. "Then she's only interested in power." The Left, on the other hand, wants to "change something for the majority of the population."

In an interview with DIE ZEIT, Dröge spoke out in favor of a coalition of the Greens, SPD and Left at the federal level with a view to the 2029 federal election. “Green-red-red would agree on many social issues and hopefully also on climate protection,” said Dröge. But Dröge also didn't rule out a coalition with the CDU/CSU: "Only black-green and green-red-red would be governments with their own narrative of departure."

Both constellations have not yet existed at the federal level. No such alliance would have a majority in the current Bundestag.