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Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder
Photo: MARKUS SCHREIBER / AFP
It is shortly before 11 p.m. when the nerves are finally on edge.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has just given a lecture on the hardship fund for companies affected by the corona crisis, the countries should bear half the costs, Scholz remains tough.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder drives him up.
"I don't know what you drank," the CSU boss rumbled, according to participants, against the SPD's vice head of government.
"You are not the Chancellor here."
Apparently Söder feels that Scholz's tone is presumptuous.
"You don't have to grin that badly," he adds.
These are words that have never existed in this sharpness, even in the arguably tried-and-tested group of prime ministers.
Söder later tried to downplay the matter at the press conference.
Much comes together on this Wednesday evening.
There are of course Scholz and Söder in their own roles, two alpha characters in politics, one of whom is already a Social Democratic candidate for Chancellor, the other could become one for the Union.
A little early federal election campaign should also be behind the skirmish at a late hour.
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