The parliamentary secretary of the Union faction, Thorsten Frei, recently encouraged a coalition break and proposed a Jamaica coalition led by the Union. But would Friedrich Merz be the right candidate for chancellor?
Recently, when it was not yet clear whether Olaf Scholz would deliver battle tanks to Ukraine, the CDU had an idea. Thorsten Frei, after all the not insignificant parliamentary secretary of the Union faction, turned to the Greens and Liberals, whom he believed the chancellor was too hesitant for. Frei encouraged her to break the coalition. The traffic light partners of the SPD should “finally act consistently and look for a fresh start under different circumstances,” said Frei. He proposed a Union-led Jamaica coalition.