FDP deputy leader Wolfgang Kubicki predicts a quick end to the current traffic light government if the parties do not act decisively after the Brandenburg election.
The FDP has been “punished in every state election” for the past three years, Hagen continued, “and that is not due to the work on the ground.” Citizens rejected the traffic light government and made that “unmistakably clear,” said Bavaria’s FDP leader. “Germany needs a turnaround in economic and migration policy, which does not seem possible with this coalition,” stressed Hagen. “This cannot continue.”
On election night, FDP federal vice-chairman Wolfgang Kubicki had already expressed skepticism about a continuation of the traffic light coalition until the regular federal election in autumn 2025. He also told the newspapers of the Funke Media Group on Monday: “It is becoming increasingly unlikely that the coalition will stay together for another year when I look at the blockade stance on migration policy taken by the Green coalition partners.”
Despite election defeat: FDP gives traffic light coalition an ultimatum
Kubicki also attacked the Greens in economic policy. With a continuation of the “planned economy methods” that Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) has in mind, “we will certainly not make it to next year as a coalition.”
“Either the traffic light coalition shows that it can draw the necessary conclusions from these elections, or it will cease to exist,” said Kubicki. That is “a matter of a few weeks. We will not wait until Christmas. We cannot expect the country to endure that.”
The FDP only received 0.8 percent of the vote in Brandenburg. In the elections in Saxony and Thuringia three weeks ago, it had already fallen well below the five percent mark. After the Brandenburg election, FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai called for an “autumn of decisions” on issues such as the economy and migration.
Source: Stern
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