"A mockery of the voters": Söder criticizes Habeck's candidacy for chancellor
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Söder criticizes Habeck’s bid for chancellorDifferent pension rules apply to dismissed or departing FDP ministers; Boris Pistorius had not yet completed the required two years in office.
- CSU leader Markus Söder criticized Robert Habeck’s announced bid for chancellor and ruled out members and former ministers of the failed coalition joining a future government.
- Under the Federal Ministers Act, the special pension rule applies after more than two uninterrupted years in government, but not to Christian Lindner, Marco Buschmann and Bettina Stark-Watzinger.
- Despite their ministers’ dismissal, the FDP parliamentary group said it was willing to continue cooperating with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the condition that snap elections be held quickly.
- The minority government wants to advance pension, economic, child-benefit and tax measures in the Bundestag, while CDU Secretary-General Carsten Linnemann rejected Union support.
That the Green economy minister, who is responsible for the economic disaster and the downturn of industry, declares himself a candidate for chancellor, is almost a mockery of the voters. This is not what humility looks like.— Markus Söder, Bavarian Minister-President, told BILD am SONNTAG
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"A mockery of the voters": Söder criticizes Habeck's candidacy for chancellor
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