Conflicts await Finance Minister Lindner

Christian Lindner

The future Federal Minister of Finance starts with budget worries in his office. The traffic light’s wish list is long, but the budget is limited.

(Photo: imago images / Mike Schmidt)

Berlin Christian Lindner was patronizing. “Social Democrats and Greens can be proud of what they have negotiated in this coalition agreement,” said the FDP chairman when he presented the traffic light partners’ agreements with future Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Greens leader Robert Habeck on Wednesday afternoon .

Lindner can afford his generous gesture because, according to the Liberals, he got a lot out of the coalition negotiations for his own party. Above all, this includes the powerful Federal Ministry of Finance, which he secured for the FDP and thus for himself.

The FDP leader has finally reached the goal he had striven for in the failed Jamaica explorations in 2017. He absolutely wanted the post of finance minister and prevailed against the Greens chairman Habeck, who had meanwhile also expressed interest.

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