I've brought this up occasionally....that the German Constitution is a pretty flexible document, and every year or two....there's a change.
So the topic came up yesterday....new incoming Chancellor Merz (CDU-CSU)....wants a slight change (relaxation of the debt 'brake').
Well...when you have the new coalition gather-up....the AfD, Linke, and Greens....will control 216 seats in the Bundestag....enough to block any Constitutional change.
So, he wants the current Chancellor (Scholz) with his coalition remaining, and CDU-CSU help....probably with FDP votes too....to make the change (now).
Any of this illegal? No. The rules say that the current Bundestag (with Scholz)...is seated until 25 March.
For the next our four years? Well....the 216-seat problem will exist, and I suspect that zero Constitutional changes will occur.
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VDH sure laid into incoming Chancellor Merz. Why he refuses to cooperate with Trump is ill-timed and will not benefit the German people: https://youtu.be/AOhwqJnq7ew
I'll just say that the theatrical show has reached a level....where everyone on the stage (leadership, authority) has to pretend they are uncooperative with Trump. It is totally different from 2017/2018 era, and the intellectual Germans are still shaking their heads on how Trump came back (never seeing Biden's decline).
Priority presently for the new gov't....stabilize the economy, get energy prices lessened, ensure VW survives, find a path with 'safe' migration, make deportation work, and lessen bureaucracy.
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