Germany’s FDP criticizes lack of ‘real reforms’ in coalition deal
A leading politician from Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) said on Wednesday that the incoming government will not bring the “promised change of policy.”
“In future, Germany will be governed by despondency,” said Christian Dürr, an FDP executive committee member who hopes to become the leader of his party.
Dürr criticized the lack of “real reforms” foreseen in the coalition deal and the fact that an additional ministry and posts for state ministers are to be created. “The fact that corporate taxes are not to be really reduced until 2032 is completely incomprehensible in view of the crisis,” he said.
He said when it came to debt everything had to happen quickly, but every step towards economic recovery is being put off.
Dürr’s comments came after the conservative bloc – made up of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union – and the Social Democratic Party presented their coalition agreement in Berlin.
The FDP was a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition, until Scholz sacked party head and finance minister Christian Lindner, triggering the collapse of the coalition.
