Coalition formation: growing expectation pressure from Union of explorations

After the agreement of a huge new debt admission in the explorations, the expectation pressure for the enforcement of one’s own core concerns compared to the SPD is growing in the Union. “Without a real change of policy in migration, economy and state modernization, there is no automatism for a coalition with the SPD,” said Baden-Württemberg CDU state chief Manuel Hagel. “There may only be an approval of the special fund in the Bundestag if the SPD recognizes this commandment of state -political reason and is ready to go with us.”

At the beginning of their explorations, the heads from the CDU, CSU and SPD had agreed to loosen the debt brake in the Basic Law for higher defense spending and also to create a special fund of 500 billion euros for the infrastructure. In the election campaign, the Union had opposed such considerations.

“These debts must go hand in hand with savings”

Union -internal criticism has already been criticized in the consent of the negotiators around Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz (CDU). CDU boss Hagel warned “that these debts must have a clear repayment plan right from the start and can only go hand in hand with savings – such as when it comes to citizenship.” With a view to a desired exploratory result, Hagel emphasized: “Nothing is united before not everything is united.”

Junge-Union boss Johannes Winkel had previously spoken of a “hard blow for generation justice” and asked in the “Tagesspiegel” that the Union had to “deliver in migration, economy, even with pension now”. The “Spiegel” reported, ex-parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) showed himself more than skeptical in a faction meeting and referred to rejecting campaign expressions. The “picture” had reported that Brinkhaus said: “We told the opposite in the election campaign”.