SPD leader Walter-Borjans: "The coalition will hold out until the end because the Chancellor's name is Angela Merkel"

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SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans assumes that the coalition with the Union will last until the end of the legislative period, regardless of who becomes the new CDU chairman.

"The coalition will hold out to the end because the Chancellor is Angela Merkel until the end of the legislative period," said Walter-Borjans of the "Rheinische Post".

"I then imagine the coalition committees to be extremely lively," he added with a view to the fact that the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz could become the new CDU chairman.

When asked about a possible Union Chancellor candidate Markus Söder, Walter-Borjans said: “I was able to get to know Markus Söder in various positions.

He especially loves the big pose on stage and in the media.

Persistent negotiation and sensitive sounding out of workable compromises would be a completely new side of the CSU boss for me. "

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The CDU wants to elect a successor to party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on January 16 after almost a year of hanging out.

In addition to Merz, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet and the CDU foreign expert Norbert Röttgen are also applying for the party chairmanship.

Walter-Borjans also calls for a coalition committee to be convened as soon as possible.

“I expect that we will meet in the coalition committee in mid-January, where we will discuss upcoming decisions.

In addition to overcoming the crisis, we also have to make urgent decisions for the time after, ”said Walter-Borjans, who leads the SPD together with Saskia Esken.

Walter-Borjans against law on the corona vaccination sequence 

Walter-Borjans spoke out against a law on the corona vaccination sequence.

"We would lose a lot of time if we were to do it again with a law," he said, considering which population groups should be vaccinated against Covid-19 first.

One is always in the balance between safe, fast and fair.

The path that is now being taken will best meet these three criteria.

Exactly eleven months after the first corona infection became known in Germany, vaccination begins on Sunday in all federal states.

A few tens of thousands of cans were delivered on Saturday.

They are distributed to vaccination centers and mobile teams by the responsible state authorities.

First, people over the age of 80, as well as nurses and hospital staff at particular risk, are to be immunized.