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The Duran Podcast

Scholz coalition shows signs of fracture

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🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Scholz coalition shows signs of fracture

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's talk about Germany again. And we did a video on Germany a couple days ago.

0:08.3

And here we are again talking about the coalition, Schultz and the Greens. And it looks like this coalition is running its course.

0:19.8

Thank God, though. I'm worried what comes next.

0:22.6

Anyway, what's the situation with Germany?

0:25.6

Well, I mean, the coalition, the government is now in a state of suspended collapse.

0:33.6

If I can put it like that, suspended, because essentially, to all intensive purposes,

0:38.8

my impression is that it isn't properly functioning as a government anymore.

0:43.3

Every part of it now hates every other part.

0:46.7

So the FDP, which is the smallest party, the liberal Democrats, the free Democrats,

0:53.1

who are in one of the old parties of Germany. Anyway,

0:55.4

they are now absolutely furious with the Greens, the free Democrats did disastrously in the elections

1:02.4

in Bavaria and in Hesse. And there's question marks about whether the work, if there was a Bundestag

1:09.2

election, they would even manage to get back into the Bundestag.

1:13.6

They might even fall below the 5% limit. So they're now furious with the Greens.

1:18.6

They're saying that the Greens are leading Germany to disaster, that they've overreach.

1:22.6

They're saying things that we were saying almost right from the outset about this coalition, that the Greens

1:28.4

are basically running the coalition. They've leveraged themselves into a position where they're

1:33.7

basically dictating the agenda. The Greens, of course, are hitting furiously back. They have also

1:41.1

lost significant support in Germany, but, you know, they still have a core of support that will follow them.

1:48.0

And, of course, they're not going to change their policies because the free Democrats, who they despise, don't want to, you know, don't like what the Greens now stand for or are doing.

2:00.0

Chancellor Schultz, you know, floats over all of this,

2:03.7

like a teddy bear that's three-quarters asleep

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