The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer defended the waiver of the wealth tax demanded by the SPD after the explorations for a traffic light coalition in the federal government.
"We could not agree on a wealth tax," said the Social Democrat in the VRM newspapers.
"There are many other central themes from the SPD's program that we will implement."
Mainz - The FDP had rejected tax increases.
Dreyer was a member of the Social Democrats' exploratory team.
On Friday, the negotiators from the SPD, Greens and FDP presented their exploratory results together and recommended coalition negotiations.
The exploratory paper says: “We will not introduce any new taxes on assets and we will not increase taxes such as income tax, company tax or value added tax.” The SPD executive committee voted unanimously for negotiations on Friday.
For the Greens, a small party congress should decide on Sunday, the FDP leadership then on Monday.
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Exploratory talks represent a non-binding sounding out of differences and similarities. When parties, on the other hand, start coalition negotiations, they do so with the clear aim of forming a government together.
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