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The victory in the dispute over the new citizens' income inspires the Union faction.
The conservative opposition rightly recognized that there was a lot of political capital to be gained from the all-too-human desire to punish those who refuse to work.
The SPD and the Greens could not refuse their demands for the abolition of the sanction-free trust period and the reduction of the state’s untouched assets, especially since this also fulfilled a dearest wish of the coalition partner FDP, which was always neglected.
An agreement seemed to have already been reached, but now CDU leader Friedrich Merz wants to do it again.
Before the states co-governed by his party in the Bundesrat agree, the reform should be supplemented as follows:
No dessert for benefit recipients who forget to beg God for a job during grace.
Renaming of the citizen money in "lazybones bonus".
Posting of large-format posters with the inscription "Those who don't work shouldn't eat either" and a likeness of Franz Müntefering in all job centers to simultaneously humiliate the unemployed and the SPD.
These points are a matter for negotiation, but Merz definitely wants to insist on an amendment to the Citizens' Income Act: »(§ 7, Para. 13a) After missing more than three appointments for job placement, the beneficiary will not be contacted by the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in less than 8 minutes yelled at him in person."