3 hours agoMerkel bloc published the election programme
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(5 years ago)The centre-right German bloc has promised incentives for the economy without tax growth and climate neutrality for the country until 2045, without risking jobs in the September election programme, which will determine Chancellor Angela Merkel's successor. CDU/ CSU is the last major political bloc that [...]
CDU/ CSU is the last major political bloc to present a programme for the 26 September parliamentary elections. The other two parties, with candidates for Chancellors, the Green Environmental Party and the centre-left Social Democratic Party, presented their programmes in March.
The bloc, composed of the Democratic Union (CDU), led by Armin Laschet, which is running for Germany's future leader and the smaller Christian Social Union (CSU), discovered the programme at a time when polls show the bloc is leading again.
Union fell into surveys behind the Greens earlier this year due to dissatisfaction with the slow start of vaccines in Germany, scandals due to the involvement of several MPs in the lucrative business of procurement masks and disputes over who their candidate for Chancellorship will be.
Manifest, titled “Program for Stability and Reconstruction”, is based on Merkel's popularity, which has long announced it will not run for a fifth four-year term while also offering something new.
Laschet said that CDU/ CSU wants to make the country “faster, more efficient and digital”.
“German must become a leader in new technologies, our country belongs to high countries in climate protection and should become better in its ability to respond to pandemics, cyber attacks, populism, extremism and economic crises”, Laschet said.
Our option is that we will combine climate protection with economic force and social security. We will make Germany a climate-neutral industrial country with good and safe jobs,” he added.
The union has pledged to implement the government's current goal of achieving zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.
The Union aims to achieve a balanced budget, which Germany has managed for years under Merkel's leadership, but has stopped with the pandemic and the coronary.
This coalition remains with the centre-right position in Germany, which has an aversion to tax hikes, even after major spending to alleviate the crisis caused by COVID-19.
Laschet said it would reduce bureaucracy and regulations, which would bring higher tax revenues, but he added that this is not a programme of large tax cuts and that it is not realistic at the moment.
