Former FDP politician Volker Wissing, 56, explains that the Union and SPD destroyed their trust by talking too much after he, as transport minister, experienced the failure of the traffic light government at the end of 2024 and separated from the FDP.
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At the end of 2024, the FDP left the traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, causing the government to collapse. Volker Wissing was transport minister at the time and then left the FDP.
Is the Merz government traffic lights? The former FDP politician Volker Wissing, 56, experienced the failure of a coalition as transport minister. When the FDP collapsed the traffic light government at the end of 2024, Wissing also separated from his party. Today he is a lawyer and says that the Union and the SPD are destroying their trust.
DIE ZEIT: Mr. Wissing, which relationship requires more work: the marriage between two people or the coalition between two parties?
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