FDP Chief Christian Lindner Warns of a New Grand Coalition after the Federal Election
FDP chief Christian Lindner warned of a “danger for the further development of Germany” if a new grand coalition were to form after the federal election. He said this at the Liberal’s state election assembly in Bielefeld on Sunday.
The Liberals did not want to win the election by promising people “a few cents or euros” from the state budget. “We want to be elected in this election because we promise the people that our economy will be successful again and they can have a good job to buy things for themselves” Lindner said.
The SPD has already shown what it really intends to do with its recent value-added tax proposal, Lindner said. “The SPD has presented far-reaching proposals for changing the debt brake, and these are not, I’ll say it that way, micro-invasive changes.” Instead, the absolute debt ceiling should be raised – “clearly to finance a distribution policy like the value-added tax.”
Lindner finds this dangerous, not only because state debt is not sustainable in the long run, but also because interest on all state debts must be paid in the future and thus restricts the future, the FDP chief said. Germany has a model function in Europe. The danger is that “the dikes in Europe will break” and in a few years, one will experience that the foundation of the currency union is undermined by state debt, “as we already experienced over ten years ago” the FDP chief said, who ran for the top spot on the list of the Liberals in North Rhine-Westphalia for the federal election on Sunday.