Conservatives and Social Democrats won an agreement on Tuesday to form a coalition of government in Germany, six weeks after the last general elections, held on February 23.
As reported by the ‘NTV’ television and the digital edition of the ‘Focus’ magazine, which cited sources close to the negotiating parties, the winning bloc of these elections, formed by the Christian -democratic union (CDU) and the Social Cristiana Union (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) agreed a text to guide the action of the next German government.
The details of the agreement, achieved by the president of the CDU, Friedrich Merz the Bavaria Prime Minister and leader of the CSU, Markus Söder, and the co -president of the SPD, Saskia Esken, will be presented on Wednesday at a press conference at 10.00 GMT, according to ‘Focus’.
On the negotiating parties weighed the urgency unleashed by the situation in international markets after the US president, Donald Trump, announced in what he called “day of liberation” the imposition of international tariffs, which for the European Union (EU) are 20%.
Merz and his conservative block came in which the key week for negotiations with the SPD under democopic pressure was considered, as the CDU/CSU appeared in recent polls matched in terms of intention to vote to the alternative ultra -rightist for Germany (AFD).
A recent survey of the INSA Institute came to place CDU/CSU and AFD with both.
The conservative block won the last German general elections, with 28.5 %of the votes, ahead of AFD (20.8 %), SPD (16.4 %), the green (11.6 %) and the left (8.8 %) EFE.
Once the agreement was closed, it would still have to be ratified by the social democrats with a consultation to the bases, a process that would take approximately two weeks.
The conservative block, formed by the CDU and the social -Christian union of Bavaria (CSU), intends to approve it in a congress at the end of April, although some voices have been raised within the Merz party that claim that they also submit to the vote of the militancy.
Low popularity of Merz
In addition, the frustration of the conservative electorate has grown with the direction of the party since the elections of February 23.
According to an opinion barometer published on Tuesday by ‘NTV’, only 32 % of respondents think Merz is suitable for being a chancellor, compared to 40 % of the beginning of March.
Even 28 % of the voters of his own party consider him inappropriate as Chancellor, while the conservative block only obtains the support of 25 % of the respondents, as last week, only one point above the ultra -rightist alternative for Germany (AFD), second force in the general elections of February 23.
After those elections, conservatives and social democrats, they agreed to disconnect the expense in defense of the debt brake and the assumption of credits worth 500,000 million euros to invest in infrastructure and climatic protection without having figured in the electoral campaign.
Source: www.eldiario.es
