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Traffic light negotiations: FDP remains tough on tax stance - cannabis could now become a sticking point

2021-10-28T05:44:52.935Z


It's about taxes, corona, rents, digitization and much more: The traffic light parties are negotiating a coalition agreement. The FDP underlines once again its position.


It's about taxes, corona, rents, digitization and much more: The traffic light parties are negotiating a coalition agreement.

The FDP underlines once again its position.

Berlin - The working groups with experts from the SPD, Greens and FDP still have time until November 10 to negotiate building blocks for a traffic light coalition agreement.

In the week from December 6th, the new Chancellor - probably Olaf Scholz * (SPD) - is to be elected and the new government to be formed.

The current black and red federal government under Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU) has been in office for so long *.

Traffic light negotiates coalition agreement: FDP underlines its stance on taxes

With 22 groups, some topics come together that land on the table. Despite all the harmony that the parties try to radiate outwards, there are also some points with potential for conflict.


For example, the

parliamentary manager of the

FDP parliamentary group, Marco Buschmann, once again underlined the attitude of the Liberals to reject tax increases.

"The FDP * is always ready to talk about the relief of low and middle incomes, as the SPD and the Greens would like," he told the

editorial network Germany

.

“But the FDP is not ready to talk about tax increases in the country with the highest taxes and duties.

That was and is our position. ”According to the exploratory paper, there should be no tax increases and the debt brake should be adhered to *.

However, tough negotiations are expected in the financing of the future coalition's projects.

"Legalizing cannabis is not that easy": FDP advocates caution

The FDP also remains cautious on another topic - about which there is nothing in the exploratory paper *.

General Secretary Volker Wissing told the newspapers of the

Funke media group

about the possible release of cannabis: "I am a lawyer by nature and know that the legalization of cannabis is not that easy." Legalization must be proceeded "very carefully".

So far, the sale of cannabis products has been banned in Germany.

The traffic light parties, which started their coalition negotiations at working level on Wednesday (October 27), may want to legalize these products.

Key issues paper from the SPD, Greens and FDP: Lauterbach traffic light plans on Corona legal basis

Meanwhile, SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach welcomes the plans of the SPD, Greens and FDP for an end to the statutory corona special situation. “The key issues paper does justice to the fight against the corona pandemic. It is a good compromise between measures that are still possible for the federal states and a rejection of tough cuts such as lockdowns or curfews, ”he told the

Rheinische Post

. "Nobody needs a lockdown or school closings anymore." Lauterbach also said that in the spring it will first have to be shown whether all corona measures could fall from March 21st. "That also depends on whether virus variants will still appear."

According to plans by the possible future government partners SPD, Greens and FDP, the special legal situation due to the Corona * pandemic should end on November 25th.

For a transitional period until March 20, 2022, a new legal basis for Corona requirements is to be created instead.

This means that the federal states should continue to be able to order "less intervention-intensive" measures - among other things, on masks or access rules only for vaccinated, convalescent and tested people.

(dpa / AFP / cibo) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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