SPD Vice President Schweitzer calls for changes to Chancellor Merz's reform course

The deputy SPD chairman Alexander Schweitzer is calling for changes to the reform course of Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU).

“For Friedrich Merz, reforms mean that growth can only come about through cuts in the welfare state,” Schweitzer told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. But reforms must be fair and everyone must make their contribution. "Instead, the Chancellor breathes the cold neoliberal spirit of the 1990s."

Merz was also elected by people who did not necessarily value him personally, but who attributed him economic competence. "And now they notice: He doesn't deliver," said the former Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Chancellor is telling people that they don't work enough.