Overview
- Altuğ announced his departure from the Greens and their Abgeordnetenhaus group effective November 30 and declared the next day he would sit with the SPD.
- He will keep his direct mandate for Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and continue work on nature conservation, urban green space and nutrition policy.
- He points to the Greens’ abstention on a Left Party Kleingarten bill and the removal of his “trees” portfolio after the Volksentscheid Baum as breaking points.
- He criticizes perceived drift toward Die Linke and says antisemitism in that party is hardly confronted, while identity politics has eclipsed ecological priorities.
- SPD leader Raed Saleh welcomed the move and highlighted prior cooperation on bee protection, as Greens sources said Altuğ had long been isolated and the SPD prepares a formal admission vote.