SPD Vice Kevin Kühnert expects that the SPD, Greens and FDP will agree on a coalition agreement this year. “I am very confident of that,” said the former Juso boss on Monday in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”. “The talks have now started well, very trusting. Nothing leaks out. That is an important basis for things to go smoothly. ”Now we go into in-depth explorations, then hopefully in coalition talks. He hopes that we will soon be on the home stretch.
Bold showed himself confident that there is a sufficient basis for cooperation. “I do believe that there is enough to build up a common sense of politics over the first few months, and then there will be crises, like in every government, that is quite normal,” he said. “It is all the more important that the negotiations are now conducted so solidly and seriously.”
Kühnert also expects a willingness to compromise in budget and financial policy, one of the biggest sticking points in the traffic light talks. Serious clarification is needed here as to what the state’s income and expenditure situation and a fairer tax system should look like. “There is certainly a lot of distance to go,” said Kühnert. “I suspect that everyone has to distance themselves to a certain extent from their points of view. That’s just how it is in negotiations in a democracy. “
Kühnert assured meThe prospect that the FDP could have a say in many questions in the future does not cause him to be frustrated: