“It will continue tomorrow” – preliminary negotiations between the Left, the Greens and the SPD are currently inconclusive

The pre-exploratory talks between the Left, the Greens and the SPD in Berlin ended late on Wednesday afternoon without any publicly communicated results. But it is said that there will be a public statement or statement on Thursday. The message from the negotiators on Wednesday on the way out of the negotiating rooms was simply that things would continue tomorrow, apparently with further substantive discussions.

Bettina Jarasch, the Green Party's co-leading candidate for the Berlin House of Representatives election, told WELT on the way out of the Berlin House of Statistics, where the talks are taking place: "We're going to commemorate now. It'll continue tomorrow." By “commemoration” Jarasch meant an event in Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church to commemorate the victims of the Islamist terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 in Israel.

In the preliminary negotiations between the parties, a common basic stance on questions of “anti-Semitism, racism and social cohesion” should be found before any explorations into a joint coalition begin. The Greens and SPD are demanding that the Left Party clarify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic tendencies and personalities in their party. Wednesday's conversation was the third between the parties on this issue in the series of preliminary negotiations. Many had already expected a result by Wednesday.