Overview
- Organizers say more than 4,000 SPD members have signed to oppose the federal plan to tighten Bürgergeld sanctions.
- The tally exceeds the roughly one percent of members needed to seek a formal members’ petition under SPD rules.
- The network around former Juso chair Franziska Drohsel intends to submit the signatures at party headquarters in Berlin on Monday.
- The push targets the schwarz-rote coalition’s proposal to reshape the jobseekers’ benefit, which critics describe as punishing people in poverty.
- An SPD spokeswoman told dpa the signatures must pass verification, leaving the formal outcome contingent on validity checks.