Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) rejects a coalition between his party and the Greens after next year's federal elections. In an interview with the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" and the "Sächsische Zeitung", Kretschmer agreed with CSU leader Markus Söder, who had ruled out such a coalition after the federal elections.
"The election results in Saxony show that the Greens as a party and their concepts have failed. Many young people actually want climate protection. But these green scaremongers and their overreaching solutions were very damaging," said Kretschmer. That was bitter. "There has been a huge loss of trust across generations."
Kretschmer had forged an alliance with the Greens and the SPD in Saxony during the last legislative period. During the election campaign, he lashed out at the Greens. In the end, they only received 5.1 percent of the vote. When asked whether he was to blame for their performance, Kretschmer said: "The Greens failed because of their federal party. And because of their inability to distance themselves from them and prioritize their own Saxon projects instead."
