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Chancellor Angela Merkel faced criticism from within the ranks of her own conservatives on Thursday (8 February) for making concessions to her centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners to seal a governing alliance a day earlier, scríobhann Paul Carrel.
Merkel, who leads the Christian Democrats (CDU), ceded the powerful finance ministry to the SPD in a coalition deal finally agreed on Wednesday (7 February), more than four months after a national election last September in which both blocs lost support.
“I think the cabinet formation, as it is now, is a political mistake,” said Christian von Stetten, a CDU lawmaker who represents business interests, told broadcaster ARD, adding that this applied in particular to giving up the finance portfolio.
“Chancellor at any price,” Bild wrote on its front page. “Merkel gifts the SPD the government.”
Merkel ally Julia Kloeckner was forced to defend the coalition agreement.
“We have kept our key promises from the election campaign,” she told broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. “For families, there is significantly more support. We will keep the finances stable. There will be no new debts, but also no tax increases.”
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