Quote Originally Posted by Firn View Post
To be honest the SPD, Greens and Linke (well this one not so much) surprise me. Of course there are political games to be played but certainly even among their voters the great majority should be against their latest plans. Likely they think that somehow voters are still to be gained that way, but I have a hard time to believe in it.

The most likely explanation may be rather simple. They are so desperate to score some political points, to attack the government and to sharpen their political profile that they are doing something stupid to do something at all.
Another interpretation would be that Gabriel probably wants to warm up Schrder's recipe for getting into power; cozy up with big business. I hope we won't learn whether he copies Schrder's approach to governing, too; backstab the lower class.