“Crisis of trust and credibility” – Reddig demands a future concept from Merz

In the struggle over pension reform, CDU member of the Bundestag Pascal Reddig insists on sticking to the recommendations of the expert commission. "We need more speed. And above all, we have to fully implement the results, including the pension at 63," said the deputy federal chairman of the Junge Union in the podcast "Table.Today". “This is an expectation that we also have very clearly towards the Federal Chancellor.”

Reddig, who played a leading role in the pension commission for the Union and worked on the reform plans, was open to a hardship regulation. However, it must be clear that topics will not be reopened in principle.

The MP demanded from Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) “a leadership that shows where things are going in the next ten or 15 years.” The CDU is in a “crisis of trust and credibility”. It is now about stabilizing the social security systems, about a stable budget, about the challenges in the area of ​​security and about fair performance. The Union has not had sufficient answers to all of these issues in the past few months. “We have to be specific now.”

With a view to the planned income tax reform, Reddig called for a concept that makes it clear "that it makes a difference whether you work or not. A clear difference." He would like “that we would think about a completely new big idea that would mean that work is no longer taxed as high as it is at the moment.”