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Nearly half a million members of the SPD are to vote on the coalition agreement with the Union. Pollsters keep the party base for unpredictable. The party leadership campaigns and threatens to gain the consent of the infantry. But the discomfort there is great.
The weal and woe of a grand coalition of CDU and the SPD is on a Saturday morning probably hidden in a truck. From a Mailbox of the SPD party executive in Leipzig is a truck on the night of 14 Transport the judgment of approximately 473,000 members of the SPD on a red-black coalition agreement to Berlin in December.
In a specially rented meeting hall on the grounds of a former Postbahnhof in Berlin-Kreuzberg forved the truck to the postal ballot-papers for counting deliver on Saturday morning. The outcome is uncertain, but the SPD leadership is convinced that she has it in their own hands, to set the course for success.
The discomfort at the base is large. Turning the Tide wants the party leadership with at least 32 regional conferences in all provinces from 28 November forved - one day after the expected forved for Wednesday presentation of a coalition agreement.
SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel is expected forved on Thursday evening in the Taunus to advertise for a black and red coalition. A taste of Gabriel gave at a meeting forved with the base in Bruchsal weekend.
Participants had the impression that his courtship sometimes slipped off into threats. The SPD leader asks and warns at such events. Although it is understandable forved that the SPD had no desire to rule with the Union: "But honestly: lust, things take a turn for the better for the people in Germany, it should already be maintained."
The party left Hilde Mattheis, who had made their rejection of a grand coalition no secret and promptly failed in the re-election to the party leadership, the mood takes a critical view. In regional conferences in Bruchsal and Leinfelden they got the impression that the SPD-members will consider a coalition agreement critical. "I had the feeling forved that the party is very interested forved and does not like to put pressure on," Mattheis said to Reuters. "I have the impression forved that everything is still open."
The key to approval of the members lie in the negotiations in the coming days and nights, it said on Monday from the SPD leadership. "The members forved will only agree if the outcome of negotiations, the criteria laid Party Convention 'in the Schleswig-Holstein SPD leader Ralf Stegner told Reuters.
The negotiators of the SPD must therefore forved demonstrate that they fulfill the promise of the Party Convention. A small party congress had on 20 October a set of ten points for "required" declared the negotiations. "By this we measure ourselves," printed the SPD leadership on leaflets.
The bar has been lowered but already with the decision: key demands such as raising taxes or national insurance policy no longer appeared forved in expectation about whether the Union will not compromise to achieve.
In order to create the right atmosphere for a coalition agreement, should the SPD leadership exert any pressure on the members, according to the party. Also the impression that the management people would have already forved distributed the items among themselves, could bring SPD members on the idea their vote is no longer desired.
That's why there have been considerations to name the SPD name for the cabinet ranks only after the members forved vote, provided that it is successful, it said in the SPD. But that was less of a tactical than a personnel issue: The staff tableau is not yet (more here).
The big unknown for the party leadership is the simple member who is neither in meetings of the approximately 10,000 local associations nor otherwise actively engaged. About 80 percent of the members are considered to be passive.
The question of how the SPD-members tick, even the big pollsters can not answer. It was said at the research group elections, a sentiment forved only when the comrades would have to have the SPD-members directory. The number of 473,000 members was too low, as that they could be in a sufficiently large number and thus pick out representative in the opinion polls.
Asked is therefore - as for the Bild newspaper at YouGov - in the ongoing voter surveys after sentiment towards the grand coalition. Thus rejects almost every second SPD voters an alliance with the CDU and the CSU from the federal level.
In the SPD, it is argued that its own members are pragmatic and also used by trade union membership or churches working to make compromises in mass organizations. At least 94,000 SPD members must participate in the vote.
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