Posted on 07/01/2018 3:23:38 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
a CSU official told The Wall Street Journal that Mr. Seehofer, addressing senior party colleagues in Munich on Sunday, had labeled Friday’s deal as insufficient and not meeting the conditions he had set to postpone his proposed closure of Germany’s borders.
While the deliberations continued, Mr. Seehofer’s comments appeared to steer Europe’s largest country toward a full-blown government crisis. Should Ms. Merkel fire Mr. Seehofer and end their respective parties’ seven-decade alliance, she would find her coalition without a majority in parliament.
Mr. Seehofer would make an announcement later Sunday, the CSU official said, declining to say whether the party would call off the coalition with Ms. Merkel’s CDU or whether Mr. Seehofer might resign.
Earlier Sunday, Ms. Merkel had urged her conservative Bavarian allies to back a European Union migration deal and stay in her government.
Such ruptures in the government are unfamiliar in Germany, where Ms. Merkel has ruled as chancellor for more than 12 years and in recent times has been the bulwark of stability as the European Union lurched from one crisis to another. *** In a sign of her weakness, Ms. Merkel took six months to build a coalition. The pressure from the right is hardest in Bavaria, where the CSU faces regional elections in October and, opinion polls suggest, could lose its absolute majority.
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Bye Merky. Don’t let the door hit your ample bum.
She can go back to cleaning Russian Toilets
Toss her out! Lock her up!
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An end to the Fourth Reich already?
It hasn’t been 1,000 years yet.
What the hell took them so long? 800,000 Syrian Refugees let in? I say its too little too late now.
Wall Street will push $ to make sure her agenda continues.
Seehofer has resigned.
The question now is what does CSU do next. They are being attacked in Bavaria from the right by AfD and if they let Merkel and CDU have their way in this clash with Seehofer, there’s a good chance CSU will lose it’s majority in the fall elections. If they bolt the alliance with CDU and crash the government they would gain in Bavaria but risk long term national obsolescence.
She used to be an East German commie propaganda minister.
Get rid of that Stasi bitch.
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