Pro-business party internally referred to its plans as ‘D-day’
Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats, who collapsed Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition earlier this month in a dispute over the budget, reportedly plotted their exit weeks before the final split, referring to their plans internally as “D-day”.
Newspapers Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the FDP had intended from at least September to force a situation that would provoke the German chancellor into pulling the plug on his tripartite coalition.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/17/free-democrats-reportedly-planned-german-coalition-exit-weeks-before-final-split
Author : Kate Connolly in Berlin
Publish date : 2024-11-17 14:26:23
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