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What Comes After the Election? Warken Says “The Government Is Elected for Four Years”

From Die Zeit · () German

Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Chancellor’s Office Minister Nina Warken rejected calls to discuss replacing Chancellor Friedrich Merz after the CDU’s losses in Saxony-Anhalt.
  • Warken said the government and parliament were elected for four years and needed stability to pursue difficult reforms.
  • She acknowledged that voters had not yet felt enough change and called for the coalition government to move faster and perform better.

Chancellor’s Office Minister Nina Warken has rejected discussions about replacing Friedrich Merz after the CDU suffered heavy losses in Saxony-Anhalt’s state election.

“It would be the worst possible thing now if we started discussing personnel issues. The government was elected for four years, and the Bundestag was elected for four years,” Warken said on ARD’s Morgenmagazin.

It would be the worst possible thing now if we started discussing personnel issues. The government was elected for four years, and the Bundestag was elected for four years.

· Nina WarkenThe Chancellor’s Office minister rejected calls to debate replacing Friedrich Merz after the CDU’s state election losses.

Warken argued that the coalition government needed stability as it pursued necessary but difficult reforms. She said Merz’s government would have to make decisions that were not always popular and called for the reform program to move faster.

“People do not yet feel that anything is changing. We need to move faster, we need to do better, and that is a justified point from the people,” she said.

People do not yet feel that anything is changing. We need to move faster, we need to do better, and that is a justified point from the people.

· Nina WarkenWarken said the coalition government needed to accelerate its reform agenda.
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