Berlin coalition talks: four controversial Left politicians in interior negotiations

The Tagesspiegel's morning newsletter Checkpoint reports that four Left Party politicians it calls controversial are involved in the coalition negotiations in Berlin on interior policy. According to the teaser, three of them reject the exploratory paper (Sondierungspapier) on dealing with antisemitism. The newsletter says one of the four had advocated for men from the Barbakh clan.

The text provided also covers a separate matter. According to the report, parliamentary group leader Tobias Schulze went into a meeting on Tuesday with a "very good feeling" and came out with a result: the Left wants to expel Vanessa Emde, a member of the state parliament whom the newsletter describes as controversial, from its parliamentary group.

That will take time, the report says. A motion for the expulsion is now being drafted and is then to be submitted to the party board and the parliamentary group. A vote on an exclusion could be held in two weeks at the earliest.

The excerpt contains only the opening of the article, so further details are not available here.