Chancellor Friedrich Mertz (CDU) sees it as non-public good fortune that he was once born within the West on the time of the department of Germany – and now not within the GDR. “I’m lucky, and it was just luck and coincidence, just that I was born in the West and grew up in the West,” Merz stated on the CDU Saxony-Anhalt state birthday party convention in Magdeburg.
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The chancellor emphasised that individuals within the West have been fortunate to are living in peace and freedom for 80 years, now not simply 35 years like other people in East Germany after reunification. What we fought for in combination isn’t the results of ancient coincidences, however the results of political selections. “Politics works,” stated the CDU flesh presser.
On this context, Mertz identified that selections within the Bundestag have at all times been arguable, for instance after reunification in 1990. However the argument fades in reminiscence, Mertz says.
Not too long ago, the black and crimson federal govt debated the pension bundle for days. “This discussion was right and necessary,” Mertz emphasised. All in all, the chancellor requires extra calmness in political debates. What was once completed in Germany all the way through the previous a long time was once fought in a political fight of opinion. “And that’s why I want to call us: We have to be able to fight again.”
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