Berlin. The leader of the SPD's youth wing has questioned the governing competence of parts of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. "For every finger the CDU points at the SPD, four fingers point back at the lack of governing ability within parts of the Union," Juso chair Philipp Türmer told the Tagesspiegel (Friday edition).
Germany's coalition teeters as SPD youth slams CDU's ideological rigidity
Among other issues, he noted that while the Union demands affordable energy prices, it remains fixated on expensive gas-fired power plants. Similarly, it claims to want to relieve the burden on workers yet refuses to consider taxing inheritances.
"Parts of the CDU are behaving like the FDP in the traffic-light coalition," Türmer said. They refuse to acknowledge necessity when it conflicts with their own ideology, allowing dogma to override logic—undermining both compromise and decision-making. "This is not primarily a crisis of the coalition, but a crisis of the Union, where large sections have lost their way on the path from opposition to government."
Recently, CDU lawmaker Christian von Stetten, head of the parliamentary group for small and medium-sized businesses, remarked at an event that the black-red coalition would "certainly not" last the full four years. He suggested there were only three or four months left to push through reforms—but conceded that the three parties might fail to reach agreement. According to Bild, senior Union figures have already discussed the possibility of an early end to the coalition, with mounting frustration over what they perceive as the SPD's reluctance to pursue reforms.
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