Kubicki criticized both FDP coalition partners – the SPD and the Greens. “The attack by the SPD parliamentary group leader in the budget debate on the FDP on child benefit and the child tax allowance, disregarding the agreements in the coalition, shows that tensions in the coalition are increasing,” said Kubicki.
Kubicki accused Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) of offering opposition leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) “negotiations about a new special fund for the economy” – “as if the traffic light coalition no longer existed.” Kubicki added: “Cooperation in a joint government looks different.”
FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai urged the coalition partners SPD and Greens to change course. Djir-Sarai told “Bild”: “We have to relieve the burden on people, businesses and companies in Germany.” This is “the basis for the economic recovery that we urgently need and which is of central importance for the future of our country.” He added: “The fact that the Greens and the SPD do not want to acknowledge this reality is very worrying. The coalition partners must change course as quickly as possible.”
Green Minister Baerbock called on the traffic light partners to work together more constructively. “Recently the traffic lights have sometimes seemed as if arguments were meaningful in themselves,” Baerbock told the newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND) on Saturday. “We should stop that.”
Disputes over the matter are part of every important decision in a democracy, said the Green politician. “Just how you argue about these issues shouldn’t be a deterrent.” The traffic lights have to change here.
Especially in an unsettling world, political leaders must “provide security and trust that we can come to good solutions together and hold the country together in stormy times,” Baerbock continued. One should also “not always just look for the fly in the ointment”.
