Billion-dollar finance package: Union and SPD at Votum via financial package before the first test

The possible new government coalition from the Union and SPD is facing their first major test. CDU, CSU and SPD must bring their debt-financed billion-dollar financial package through the Bundestag this Tuesday. Since the Basic Law is to be changed in several places, you need a two -thirds majority that you want to reach with the help of the Greens. He was “confident” that this will come about, said the possible new Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) after a meeting of the Union faction.

If this actually succeeds, the hurdle of two thirds of the votes must also be overcome in the Federal Council on Friday. This majority seems guaranteed in the country chamber after the Bavarian state government has signaled approval from CSU and free voters. In the Bundestag, however, such broad support is not yet certain. If the CDU, CSU and SPD fail, the financial foundation for the planned investments in the defense capacity of Germany and the infrastructure would break away.

Further urgent proposals against financial package without success

Meanwhile, further attempts in Karlsruhe failed to stop the Bundestag’s decision on Tuesday. The Federal Constitutional Court rejected several urgent requests against the planned vote, as the highest German court announced in the evening. Among them were applications from AfD, left, FDP and the BSW.

In the consideration, the damage would be higher from the court’s point of view if an interim order was made and the special meeting of the Bundestag was stopped – but the application would not have any success. The interference with the autonomy of parliament would then be considerable. Whether the procedure of the legislative procedure has violated the rights of MPs should be clarified in the main decision regardless of the rush decision. The court had already rejected several applications against the special meetings of the old Bundestag on Friday. They are unfounded.

The debt package is said to be adopted by the old Bundestag because there is no longer a majority in the new. The Bundestag newly elected on February 23 will meet for the first time on Tuesday next week.

The Union and the SPD had agreed last Friday after a long struggle with the Greens, which are needed for the two -thirds majority in the Bundestag. You want to have the Basic Law changed in several places: Expenditures for defense, civil protection, intelligence services and cyber security should only fall under the debt brake up to one percent of gross domestic product – i.e. about 43 billion euros in terms of GDP 2024. Everything in addition can be paid from loans.

The countries should get more scope for their own debt. In addition, a special fund for investments in infrastructure and climate neutrality is to be anchored in the Basic Law. It is excluded from the debt brake and fed with 500 billion euros from loans. Of these, 100 billion euros for the federal states and another 100 billion euros for measures for climate protection are earmarked.

Requirement: bring climate protection and business together

CDU-Vice Andreas Jung warns to take into account together when using the funds from the investment package of business, social affairs and climate protection. “We have the damn obligation to bring it together. Climate neutrality, economic strength, social acceptance, sustainability throughout the width,” said Jung on Deutschlandfunk. “Only then do we get the acceptance, only then will it become a success.” It was always clear that there must also be investments in climate protection, said Jung. “It is crucial that what is done makes sense. The coalition decides. There is no bond.”

The factions prepared the meeting of the Bundestag on Monday. In some cases there should also be a trial coordination. Union, the SPD and the Greens have 31 MPs more than they need for the two -thirds majority. The problem is that the question should still be decided by the old Bundestag – also by many MPs who will no longer belong to the new parliament and therefore may feel less bound by the discipline of the parliamentary group.

The former CDU general secretary Mario Czaja already announced that he would not appreciate the financial package in the Bundestag. The change in the Basic Law is “not generational, and the reasons that are used for this are not honest,” said the outgoing Berlin member of the Bundestag to the news portal “The Pioneer”.

According to the participant circles, there was a abstention and a undecided person in a trial coordination in the Green Group. MP Canan Bayram announced a no. “We limit future parliaments with the debt package too much in their possibilities,” she told the Editorial Network Germany. A small single -digit number of MPs was sick.

Management of the Union and SPD parliamentary group confident

The top of the Union faction is still optimistic. Party and faction leader Merz assumed that the parliamentary group would vote for the constitutional changes except for a few MPs – “less than a handful”. “I think we convinced the critics. There are two or three who want to stay in their decision not to agree tomorrow,” he said after a meeting of the CDU/CSU faction. SPD parliamentary group leader Lars Klingbeil also confidently spread after a session of the faction. At the moment, the status is that the 207 SPD MPs are missing due to illness and there will be a no voice, he reported. However, discussions would still be held with the aim “that we will get even better than SPD faction”.

Green tip advertises for approval

The Greens tip promoted approval to the compromise found. Due to the negotiations of the Green Group leadership with the Union and the SPD, the package had improved, said Economic and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck on the sidelines of a meeting with the EU Energy Ministers in Brussels. “Important agreements have been achieved.”

It was a “cheek that the German public wanted to sell an infrastructure package as additional measures and actually only wanted to finance their own election gifts with it”. However, this was averted that the package is now “good or good enough,” said Habeck.

Vote in the Federal Council

In the Federal Council, 46 of the 69 votes are necessary for changes in the Basic Law. State governments in which only the CDU, SPD and the Greens are involved in 41 votes. Together with the six voices from Bavaria, the two -thirds majority would be given. In the evening, State Chancellor Florian Herrmann (CSU) said at a joint statement with freelance voter parliamentary group leader Florian Streibl in the State Chancellery in Munich that Bavaria would agree. This would have agreed on this in a meeting of the coalition committee.

Julia Klöckner should become the new Bundestag president

Eight days before the constituent meeting of the new Bundestag, an important preliminary decision was made: the CDU/CSU parliamentary group unanimously nominated its economic policy spokeswoman Julia Klöckner for the office of Bundestag president. “Julia Klöckner can fall back on a pronounced, long -term parliamentary experience,” said Merz about the former Federal Minister of Agriculture.

This emphasized that the Bundestag had to show respect and dignity and be a role model for society. “If we don’t discuss with respect and argue here, how should it happen in the width of society?” As the strongest faction, the Union has the occupation of this protocol second highest office according to the Federal President.