Berlin - After the election defeat in Hamburg directs FDP leader Guido Westerwelle a course change and includes a Regierungmit SPD and the Greens in the federal government is no longer in principle.
He saw "keineNotwendigkeit for disclaimers undRechtsaußen except to left," he told Der Spiegel. Grundsätzlichgelte: "If other parties are approaching us, we run nichtdavon."
The big question: What does this mean for the situation in Hesse?
Probably not much. For Westerwelle also said: "Now I see keineinhaltliche basis for traffic considerations." SPD parliamentary leader Peter Struck, however, sees it in the 2009 Bundestag opportunities.
With its clear statement in favor of the coalition of the CDU FDPin Hesse and Hamburg was a failure: In Wiesbaden it was not enough fürSchwarz-yellow, in Hamburg, the Free Democrats did not come back in dieBürgerschaft. Since then, Westerberg Welles was down on the Unionparteiintern in the criticism. That Sunday evening, the FDP wants to prepare a closed meeting of the Bureau to change in strategy.
SPD parliamentary leader Peter Struck told the Welt am Sonntag: `The rigid attachment of the FDP andie CDU will be loose and dissolve completely in the end, it becomes clear jeintensiver in Hamburg, the CDU, the FDP does not need." In the 2009 Bundestag would no longer stock the black-red-green are Gelbgegen. "Instead, perhaps Grünmöglich black-yellow-or red-yellow-green. 2009 include the contents. "
Westerwelle combined his change of course with sharp criticism of derUnion: You only wanted to rule yet, `at any price, with every rotten compromise and no matter which partner`.
Specifically praised the FDP Chairman Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Stein Meier, who resist the link rate of SPD leader Kurt Beck. Exalted Stein Meier in the case mistaken for fickle: "Damuss I do apologize. Mea culpa (my fault), Mr. Stein Meier."
