The coalition committee met this Wednesday. As Bild now reports, Christian Lindner has proposed new elections at the beginning of next year. It is unclear whether the SPD and the Greens will continue as a minority government. Olaf Scholz wants to escape into an orgy of debt.
In the end, Christian Lindner no longer had a choice. He wanted to put pressure on the coalition partners with a paper. In it, he essentially called for an end to the current traffic light policy in favor of a social market economy: with lower taxes for companies, a noticeable reduction in bureaucracy and a sensible reduction in social benefits. But the SPD and the Greens only made minimal concessions to Lindner.
If Lindner had continued with the traffic lights with the FDP, he would no longer have had to stand for election in 2025. The elections in the east recently showed the FDP where it stands after three years of supporting red-green politics: at 0.8 percent in Brandenburg. If he hadn’t followed up on the threat with his paper with action, he would have been finished. Now Bild reports exclusively from the coalition committee: Lindner has asked the Chancellor for new elections. This means: The FDP wants to leave the traffic lights.
It is unclear whether there will actually be new elections. The SPD and the Greens can also continue as a minority government without the FDP.
Olaf Scholz (SPD) could only be voted out of office in the Bundestag if he himself asked for a vote of confidence or if the CDU voted together with the AfD. According to their statements about the “fire wall”, this was no longer possible. It is still unclear on Wednesday evening how things will actually proceed in the Bundestag – if Lindner backs down again now, he would be finished. The information in Bild is to be viewed as valid – the Springer-Blatt was the last media that still stood by the liberals.
Sea Bild Scholz rejected the idea of a new election. For the FDP representatives in the government, it would have meant that it would have ended the electoral term and the liberal ministers would have received a full pension entitlement. If Scholz doesn’t accommodate Lindner, that means: Scholz wants to rule through. If necessary, with a minority government – and he doesn’t want to do Lindner any favors, especially ones that would benefit him financially.
As several media reported on Wednesday evening on the sidelines of the coalition committee, Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed Finance Minister Christian Lindner. In fact, a minority government can only manage, not shape, because it needs the approval of either the CDU or AfD, or the FDP and the fragments of the Left Party, for every project.
In his government statement, Olaf Scholz was incorrigible. It is true that electricity costs for industry must be reduced. But this cannot be done through subsidies, but only through ending the failed energy transition.
It is true that the automotive industry needs to be saved. But not with subsidies, but with an immediate abandonment of the ban on combustion engines.
Scholz’s belief that fundamental political errors could be bought away, so to speak, through debt is a misguided approach. The supply conditions of the economy must be improved. Olaf Scholz wants to avoid this through party political tactics and plunge the country into a debt crisis.
And his excuse that Putin is to blame for everything is indecent. Olaf Scholz wants to raise the funds through debt that the future US President Donald Trump will cancel from Ukraine.
However, it would be important to put industry back in a position to work successfully instead of burdening citizens with new debts in order to keep the economy that has been destroyed by the state alive in the future.
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