SPD and Left Party: Hell at the Brandenburg Gate:
The SPD says it will not give anti-Semitism “a single millimeter” of leeway. If that’s the case ...
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Berlin Coalition Question: SPD and Greens Face the Left PartyThe commentary criticizes a possible coalition and points to a majority involving the CDU.
- SPD leaders Klingbeil and Bas said antisemitism should not be given even a millimeter of space.
- Berlin’s SPD additionally demands that every Left parliamentary-group member distance themselves from antisemitism.
- The Greens are drawing red lines and demand excluding a criminal clan associate from the parliamentary group.
- The commentary recalls SPD and Greens’ rapprochement with the PDS, successor to the SED, three decades ago.
not a millimeter of space for antisemitism.— Quoted from SPD leaders Klingbeil and Bas on not giving antisemitism any space in the Berlin coalition context.
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