Chancellor Helge Braun (CDU) calls for the debt brake to be suspended: When this became known in political Berlin on Monday evening, many Christian Democrats could not believe it.
Angela Merkel's (CDU) most important employee also put a core of the Union's agenda up for discussion.
There was no mention of this at the party congress, which took place only a week ago.
Not in the committees either.
According to reports, no one was forewarned.
What's behind the maneuver?
The idea that Braun positions himself without consulting his boss is so apolitical that nobody believes it.
So - what did Merkel want?