Maybrit Illner: Linnemann wants a better mood in Germany until summer

The intended coalition of the Union and SPD plans to create a change in the mood with an immediate program of measures by summer. In the first ten to twelve weeks after the election of the CDU chief Friedrich Merz as Chancellor in early May, the most priority tasks should be tackled, said CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann in the evening in the ZDF program of Maybrit Illner. The aim is that “there is a different mood in Germany during the summer break”.

“We won’t argue, less argue, maybe it happens. But we have now all felt it that we all have a responsibility,” said Linnemann. “And we will have to be measured by that.”

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig, who had also negotiated the coalition agreement for the SPD, rejected the renewed reputation of party leader Saskia Esken indirectly based on tax increases. Esken had said only one day after the presentation of the coalition agreement on Deutschlandfunk, contrary to the agreements with the Union, that an income tax reform planned by the future coalition had to be financed – if it should be new, “must be brought more with the high income”.

Skesig replied by Illner: “We have now discussed everything for a very long time.

The Union had previously reacted. CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt asked the future social democratic top of the Ministry of Finance to have a general rejection of tax increases.