CSU leader Söder assumes that the SPD will lose the next election. He could then well imagine a coalition, but without Olaf Scholz.
After the 2025 federal election, CSU leader Markus Söder is counting on a new edition of the so-called grand coalition between the Union and the SPD – but without the previous chancellor. “If you look at the central fields of politics – from economic to foreign policy to migration policy, then you know: You can’t make a state with the Greens and you can’t make a state with Olaf Scholz either,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister of the ” World on Sunday”. If the current polls remain the same, Scholz will lose the election. “Then there will be an SPD without Scholz.”
For Söder, the incumbent Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) could become the new strong man for the Social Democrats in the post-Scholz era; with him “as a junior partner, more can be imagined,” emphasized Söder. Söder reiterated again that a coalition with the Greens was unthinkable for his party: “We certainly don’t want black-green.”
Söder: “The FDP has the biggest problem of all”
Söder’s categorical and early rejection of the Greens is not without controversy in the Union – the CDU leadership, for example, views such preliminary determinations critically, as they drastically limit the Union’s room for maneuver in negotiations. No such preliminary decisions have been attributed to CDU leader Friedrich Merz, but those around him say that he does not share Söder’s reservations against the Greens.
According to the report, Söder does not expect the ruling traffic light coalition to break up prematurely. “Based on the current political situation, it is likely that the traffic light will last until the end. The FDP has the biggest problem of all, because it is in a credibility crisis,” he said. Unless something unexpected happens, the SPD, Greens and FDP would continue to govern. “For Germany, this means another lost year. The traffic lights will no longer be able to solve any problems. The traffic lights are the problem.”
