This weekend German people punished severly the Socialdemocrats (SPD), who had governed for 4 years in a Great Coalition with the Christian democrats (CDU), and gave thus rise to a powerful neoliberal coalition between the rightwing of the Christian democrats and the Liberals (FDP), who besides gained about 5% additional votes. Also, the Left (LINKE) counted 3% more votes, some more than the Greens.

Voters did judge very negatively a perspective of a coalition government composed of Socialdemocrats and Greens, which existed under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with the foreign minister Joschka Fischer until 2005. More than 1 Million traditional SPD voters didn't trust the socialdemocratic agenda anymore, mainly remembering a reform regarding disoccupation called Hartz IV and the social political and labour market reform under the name Agenda 2010, and as nearly 900.000 others gave now their vote to the Left, SPD lost this election very clearly with a decline of 10% in regard to 2005. As well, as Socialdemocrats declared before election that they wouldn't accept to govern in a coalition with the Left, who has partial links to the old East German regime, no national consensus for a Socialdemocratic-Green-Left coalition could be established. Klaus Wowereit, current major of Berlin and governing in a SPD-Left coalition, declared that the Socialdemocrats dared to open themselves to this perspective.

Personnally, looking at the election results, I cannot but agree with Klaus Wowereit, the SPD needs to return to its very social roots and besides needs to solidarize clearly workers with migrants in an evergrowing flow of people. I am very worried about the rise of no's to a major solidarity in our society. Already we have to cope with everhardening capitalism generating severe disoccupation, a rise of poverty, an education as well as income gap...in these conditions I cannot but imagine further accelerations put forward by a neoliberal coalition in Parliament.