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“Embarrassing”: Kubicki accuses Merz of “a hint of megalomania.”
Wolfgang Kubicki is deputy chairman of the FDP and vice president of the Bundestag. photo
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CDU leader Merz had brought an early federal election into play. He received criticism from FDP Vice President Kubicki for this.
The FDP stands by the words of its deputy chairman Wolfgang Kubicki is committed to the coalition with the SPD and the Greens. At the same time, Kubicki criticized statements by CDU leader Friedrich Merz about possible early elections in the Funke media group’s newspapers.
“The fact that he now, with a touch of megalomania, wants to decide for himself when the Bundestag should be re-elected is quite embarrassing,” said the Bundestag Vice President. He added: “Aside from the fact that the FDP is not planning an exit, it would be prepared even for such an unlikely event.”
The next federal election will not normally take place until autumn 2025. Merz had mentioned September 22, 2024 as a possible election date in the newspapers of the Funke media group in the event that the traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP broke up prematurely. “The summer holidays would then be over everywhere, and with the state elections in Brandenburg, the day is already an election Sunday,” said the Union faction leader.
Kubicki taunts the CDU leader
When asked whether he believed that would happen, Merz said: “The FDP knows that if it stays in the coalition, it will be thrown out of parliament again in the next federal election. In my opinion, it will therefore not be part of the traffic light want to go into the election campaign. This would expose her to suspicion that she wants to continue in this coalition.”
At the same time, Kubicki taunted Merz and said: “The much more exciting question is whether the Union now wants to go into a federal election for the second time with a candidate who many people in the country reject and who, above all, large parts of his own party do not like ?”