US EditionGermany’s Far Left Saves Merz From Potential Humiliation on Pensions
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Pure political irony: the left of all things saves the coalition's most important social project - through strategic abstention during the vote.
Merz and Spahn are fighting for every Union vote for the controversial pension package. Now help comes from one side that CDU and CSU do not want to be dependent on.
Merz and Spahn are fighting for every Union vote for the controversial pension package. Now help comes from one side that CDU and CSU do not want to be dependent on.
The Union leadership remains tough in the pension war with insurgents in its own ranks. It wants to enforce the pension package without left-wing assistance.
The Left Group in the Bundestag wants to abstain in the vote on the pension package on Friday. This reduces the number of votes that the black-red coalition has to make for the adoption of the law on its own initiative.
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