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Nach den Wahlerfolgen von AfD und Linken steht die Bundesregierung unter Druck. Die Koalition diskutiert einen neuen Kurs mit mehr Fokus auf soziale Gerechtigkeit statt Sparen und Kürzen. Gleichzeitig sorgt die geplante Zusammenarbeit von SPD und Grünen mit der Berliner Linken für Streit und Warnungen aus der Union.
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SPD und Grünen werden eine klare Abgrenzung der Linken von Antisemitismus und organisierter Kriminalität als Voraussetzung für eine Koalition verlangen.
Likely · Within weeks
Heidi Reichinnek wird weiterhin die Vorwürfe gegen die Linke als einseitige Kampagne zurückweisen und auf strukturelle Probleme verweisen.
Very likely · Within days
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig is calling for a meeting between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Friedrich Merz to discuss social reforms in order to ensure social stability and examine savings options. According to her, after the conversation with Merz about the EU budget, social reforms were not an issue. In the state elections, the SPD became the second strongest force behind the AfD with 35.5 percent.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz emphasizes the need to make Germany fit for the future, but critics such as Miriam Meckel and Sebastian Matthes see his reform claims as insubstantial. Matthes is working on a book about future visions, which he researched through trips to China and India, in order to make Germany competitive again.

On the Maybrit Illner broadcast, a planned discussion about lessons learned from election defeats escalated into a heated argument about accusations of anti-Semitism against the Berlin Left, in which Interior Minister Dobrindt and parliamentary group leader Reichinnek interrupted each other several times, while Klüssendorf pointed out the security fears of Jewish citizens and Schmitz criticized the government for Merz.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets US President Donald Trump in Washington. This is less about substantive negotiations than about symbolic staging, in which China has a stronger effect than the USA.
Saxony-Anhalt's Education Minister Jan Riedel (CDU) would like to continue working in the state administration after a change of government and has announced that he will not run for the state chairmanship of the CDU-Saxony-Anhalt.
The Berlin SPD vice-chair Cansel Kiziltepe has spoken out in favor of coalition negotiations between her party and the election winners Left and the Greens. She emphasizes that voters have chosen left-wing policies and that a stable government is necessary for political change. The SPD achieved its historically worst result of 12.1 percent in the Berlin election.