The SPD and the Greens are hesitant about forming a coalition with the Berlin Left Party

Statements from the SPD and the Greens have not yet shown any great reluctance to get involved with the Left Party in Berlin. What the SPD chairmen Klingbeil and Bas had to say about this, namely not giving anti-Semitism “an inch” of space, goes without saying and falls short of what the Berlin SPD demanded, that every Berlin left-wing MP distance themselves from anti-Semitism. The Greens at least formulate “red lines” and demand the exclusion of a criminal clan friend from the left-wing faction.

Both parties could simply reject a coalition with this particular Berlin Left Party. After all, there would be a majority with the CDU. But the Bandenburg “gate to hell,” which the CDU is now reminding its coalition partner of, is apparently not quite as bad as the gate that the SPD saw opened when the CDU and the AfD voted together in the Bundestag. In the eyes of the SPD and the Greens, left-wing extremists are something different, at least more harmless than right-wing extremists.

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Didn't the SPD and the Greens do the same with the PDS?

The case is reminiscent of the rapprochement between the SPD and the Greens and the SED successors thirty years ago. Even then, dry statements from the PDS were enough to dispel concerns about cooperation with the partly left-wing extremist party. The rapprochement took place across all the “firewalls” that already existed back then, even if they were not called that.

It will not be difficult for the Berlin Left Party to assure its future partners, as they can now be called, that they will not tolerate anti-Semitic tendencies. As before, they will hide behind pro-Palestinian furor. There remains proximity to the Remmo clan, which is not even allowed to be called that in the left-wing milieu. And there remain expropriation fantasies that would completely ruin Berlin. The Greens and the SPD should think carefully about whether they want to cross the gate to this lake. If only because every admonishing word about the AfD would then get stuck in their throats.