Coalition settlement: Left criticizes settlement as a “document of ignorance” | EUROtoday

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Die Linke criticized the draft of the coalition settlement introduced by the Union and the SPD. “It is a document of ignorance,” says celebration chief Ines Schwerdtner der Rheinische Post. “Ignorance towards the hard -working people and the great challenges of our time: social cohesion, exploding rents and ever increasing prices, the destruction of the planet and international crises.” None of those challenges will solely be “understood in their size, and real solutions are painful,” stated Schwerdtner. The left would be the plans of Union and SPD due to this fact resolutely oppose.

AfD boss Alice Weidel known as the Coalition settlement A “championship certificate” by Friedrich Merz and the Union. The paper is “continuously the handwriting of the loser voter SPD” and the Greens working within the background. She accused Merz voter fraud. The coalition settlement is a “continued” in direction of the Merkel period, which endangers prosperity and safety. The “big questions” similar to vitality and migration remained unanswered by the “small coalition” from the CDU, CSU and SPD. The “old failures” divided the posts within the new cupboard. Weidel spoke of a “lies and fire wall coalition”.

“Money like hay, but ideas like straw”

The Green Federal Chairman Felix Banaszak known as the looks of the 4 celebration leaders “quite weird and embarrassing”. Their “Klamauk”, for instance, doesn’t do justice to the seriousness of the state of affairs in relation to the query of duzen or sien. None of the most important challenges, similar to local weather change, have this alliance solely the contact of a solution: “This coalition continues where the Grand Coalition has stopped in 2021.” In the realm of ​​social justice, there’s little to be anticipated from this authorities: “Black and red will deepen the social division.” The abolition of the residents’ allowance is a “poverty certificate in the truest sense of the word,” criticized Banaszak.

The Green Federal Chairman Franziska Brantner known as the coalition settlement “Valium for Europe”. She accused Merz “cowardice before Trump”. The younger era was deserted within the pension. The contract is “not calculated in the back and front”, rather a lot can be beneath financing reservation and is shifted to commissions: “The coalition has money like hay, but ideas like straw.” Instead of lowering paperwork, the longer term coalition has created one other ministry (for digitization and state modernization), Brantner criticized.

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