Germany's Left Party will vote against a special fund for increased military spending in the next legislature, party leader Ines Schwerdtner said on Tuesday.
Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike defence spending and tackle diplomatic challenges ranging from a confrontational Trump administration to ending the Ukraine war.
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has opened talks with the Social Democrats to quickly approve as much as €200 billion ($210 billion) in special defense spending, according to a person familiar with those discussions.
The resurgence of the far-left Left Party, as well as a historic result for the far-right AfD, demonstrates growing support for the extremes as the outlook for Europe's largest economy darkens and the arrival of millions of migrants polarises society.
Germany’s Social Democrats indicated they’re open to financing a big increase in military spending by either loosening rules restricting government borrowing or creating another special fund.
F RIEDRICH MERZ, who is likely to become Germany’s next chancellor, used his victory in Sunday’s elections to issue a remarkable warning to his compatriots. This was not the need to revive his country’s ailing economy,
Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled by its increasingly tough stance on migration, however, he cast his vote on Sunday for the far-left Left Party.