The party had already “already prepared several scenarios,” he said.
Whatever the composition of the next government, Merz has excluded a second term for the Minister of the Economy, Robert Habeck, who is the main candidate for the Greens and worked to link economics and climate policy.
“Not only will Robert Habeck’s economic policy not continue, but the structure of this ministry with economy and climate under one roof will also be interrupted,” said Merz. “This construction is a bad construction from the start.”
Merz’s wish to put the economy before the climate is an important challenge for a potential coalition of Cdu -Vert, like Markus Söder – the charismatic and frank chief of the Bavarian conservatives – who has long excluded such an alliance.
There is also a great variation in their positioning on migration, Merz promising to close the borders of Germany on the first day of his mandate and the Greens considering these illegal plans, making a coalition with the SPD center -left – whose leaders recently took a more difficult position by attacking illegal migration – more likely.
“The number of people arriving at us must be reduced and quickly,” said Merz. “Many other countries have shown that this can be done. Why shouldn’t that work in Germany?
Merz told Politico that he has asylum seekers who have been classified as potentially dangerous by the country’s authorities, resume deportations to countries with which Germany does not cooperate to date because they are led By extremists such as the Taliban in Afghanistan and meet other governments to extremists conclude the migration agreements, following the example of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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