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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's plans for Germany's extraordinary defense and infrastructure spending are facing hurdles, reports the Guardian newspaper's Berlin correspondent.
"While there appears to be a growing domestic consensus on future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's plans to significantly increase defense and infrastructure spending through a multi-billion-euro fund, while relaxing Germany's notorious 'debt brake,' he faces significant obstacles," the analysis says.
Merz will try to push the legislation through the current parliament this month, where his conservative alliance and the SPD, potential coalition partners in the new government, still have the necessary two-thirds majority, along with the Greens.
This is because under the new parliamentary constellation, a third of the seats will go to the extreme left and right, Die Linke and AfD, whose support is almost impossible or far from guaranteed.
The far-right AfD has said it is investigating the legality of what Merck is trying to do.
The far-left, Die Linke, has not ruled out voting for the plans. Its co-chairman Jan van Aken said this morning that it would consider doing so "under certain conditions."
On the one hand, the party is in favor of more money for Germany's ailing infrastructure by relaxing the rules of Germany's debt brake, but opposes the "extremely high level of military armaments" being proposed, Van Aken said.
