Wolfgang Kubicki (archive), via dts news agency
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Berlin (dts news agency) – FDP deputy Wolfgang Kubicki has sharply opposed statements made by CDU leader Friedrich Merz about new elections.
It is quite embarrassing that Merz “in a touch of megalomania wants to decide for himself when the Bundestag should be re-elected,” Kubicki told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Monday editions). At the same time, the Vice President of the Bundestag said: “Aside from the fact that the FDP is not planning an exit, it would be prepared even for such an unlikely event.”
Merz had brought up September 22nd as the date for an early federal election in the event of a break in the traffic light coalition. He particularly sees the FDP trying to leave the federal government: “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 go into the election campaign as part of the traffic light want,” he told the Funke newspapers.
Kubicki replied: “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.”
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