With a large majority, the Berlin SPD youth organization Jusos has opposed the planned coalition with the CDU. A motion of the state executive with the title "NoGroKo – Berlin goes only with the left" received on Saturday the very large majority of the approximately 80 delegates of a Jusos conference in the SPD federal headquarters in Berlin.

The Jusos vehemently demanded the continuation of the coalition with the Greens and the Left Party to great applause and rejected cooperation with the CDU in principle. Two deputy SPD state chairmen had previously campaigned in vain in an objective debate.

Many delegates criticized the fact that the SPD state chairwoman and Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey and her co-chairman Raed Saleh had not appeared to face the debate. Instead, Giffey visited the SPD district association Pankow.

Campaign against "coalition with reactionaries"

The motion said about the CDU state chairman Kai Wegner, who according to the current plan is to become Governing Mayor: "Kai is the wrong first name for the Red Town Hall." He was completely unsuitable for the office. "Anyone who deliberately fishes through racist narratives on the right-wing fringe during the election campaign" cannot be elected mayor by Social Democrats.

The CDU had polarized in the election campaign, because it asked after the New Year's Eve riots the first names of suspects with German citizenship to find out whether they have a migration background. Wegner said at the time: "We need to know the names so that we can give tailor-made answers and reach the young people."

With a new website, the Jusos launched the announced campaign against the planned coalition. National leader Sinem Taşan-Funke said: "We will not rest until we have prevented this grand coalition." Many discussion events are now to follow. Taşan-Funke stressed that a joint government with the CDU would be a "coalition with reactionaries." Co-chairman Peter Maaß spoke of an "honorless CDU."

The vice-chairman of the SPD and state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Construction, Cansel Kiziltepe, stressed that the Greens had not made decisive substantive commitments. Statements on the 29-euro ticket, housing and free daycare centers remained vague. But she also said: "Yes, the CDU is conservative. This is not always easy. The campaign was racist, and it also affected me personally." However, there had been a promise that there would be personal statements with corrections.

Members' decision until 21 April

All Juso speakers rejected the CDU as a coalition partner decisively and partly emotionally and received enthusiastic applause for it. It was clear "that coalitions with conservatives must not be formed," said one speaker, others called the CDU "racist."

The Jusos have about 5000,35 members in Berlin, automatically including SPD members under the age of 19. Berlin's nearly 000,21 SPD members have until April <> to vote on whether to accept or reject the coalition agreement with the CDU negotiated by then. The negotiating commissions of the CDU and SPD had begun their talks on Thursday and had already presented initial agreements on issues.

In the re-run election on February 12, the CDU was ahead with 28.2 percent, the SPD and Greens both received 18.4 percent, the Left Party came to 12.2 percent and the AfD to 9.1 percent. The FDP flew out of parliament with 4.6 percent.