The three general secretaries will report on Tuesday after the exploration.
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Berlin The SPD, Greens and FDP negotiated a total of 14 hours on Monday and Tuesday – and want to decide on Friday whether coalition talks on a traffic light alliance will continue.
In the next two days they want to evaluate what has been achieved so far, said FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing after the explorations in Berlin. On this basis, a paper will be drawn up that will be discussed on Friday. In theory, coalition negotiations could then begin as early as next week.
However, the prerequisite is not only that the three parties agree on it. The Greens have to decide on this at a small party congress, the approval of which, however, is seen as a matter of form.
“The number of similarities has increased, but there are still issues to be clarified,” said the Greens General Secretary Michael Kellner. However, even two weeks after the general election, nothing was known about the content.
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Ambitious schedule
SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil only mentioned the topics of digitization, climate protection, the modern state and Europe, which had been negotiated. It was also about giving citizens security in the transition. Now it is a matter of working through the talks by Friday.
In negotiating circles it was said that this was an ambitious plan in view of the wealth of topics. When asked about the mood, FDP leader Christian Lindner said on Tuesday before the start of further deliberations only: “difficult”. Greens boss Habeck called the finances a “huge problem” on Sunday.
In order to enable time-saving discussions, the three parties agreed on Monday to hold the exploratory rounds in the smallest possible groups. Depending on the topic, only one specialist politician should join the core of the party leadership.
Unlike on Monday, the party leaders of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock and Habeck, this time not together with Lindner and FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing arrived at the venue at the Berlin fair.
The deputy leader of the Greens, Agnieszka Brugger, believes that an agreement between the traffic light parties on foreign and security policy is possible.
Cannabis legalization debate
This also applies to the future equipment of the Bundeswehr in view of the increasing financial leeway, said Brugger the broadcasters RTL / ntv. “But I haven’t read in any party program that anyone wants to cut 20 percent,” she added.
Police unions, meanwhile, warned negotiators against legalizing cannabis. The federal chairman of the police union (GdP), Oliver Malchow, told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Tuesday) that it made no sense to open the door for another “dangerous and often trivialized” drug in addition to the legal but dangerous alcohol .
“It has to be an end to glossing over the joint,” he said. The consumption of cannabis can lead to considerable health problems and social conflicts, especially among young people.
The FDP and the Greens are in favor of legalizing cannabis and “selling it in licensed specialist shops”. According to both parties, “decriminalization” could tie up fewer resources in the police and judiciary and dry up the black market.
The Free Democrats see possible tax revenues of up to one billion euros as a result – money that could be put into addiction prevention and treatment. The SPD, on the other hand, advocates a “regulated distribution” to adults, initially in model projects that are accompanied by prevention and counseling offers.
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