The Union and the SPD show unity after the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt

The leaders of the Union and SPD demonstrated unity on the evening after the historic state elections in Saxony-Anhalt. Federal Chancellor and CDU leader Friedrich Merz as well as Vice Chancellor and SPD leader Lars Klingbeil appeared together at the garden party of the SPD-Seeheimer, the more conservative part of the SPD parliamentary group. «We also want to achieve success together. And I think that we are now really called upon to do that,” emphasized Merz. Klingbeil warned: “The biggest favor we could do these right-wing extremist agitators would be if this coalition came under pressure from them.”

Top SPD politicians had previously called for the federal government's reform plans, for example in pension policy, to be debated again. Merz made it clear that the reform course would continue anyway: “Yes, the reforms have to happen. But we also have to tell people why they have to be like that,” he explained. Klingbeil warned that reforms must improve people's lives. It is important that the coalition finds solutions in the end. "That's the important thing in democracy, that you are willing to find compromises and find a common path," he said.