Lindner on reports about FDP plans to end the "traffic light" coalition: "Where is the news?"

Lindner on reports about FDP plans to end the "traffic light" coalition: "Where is the news?" AFP • 6 hours • 1 minute reading time FDP leader Christian Lindner sees no news in press reports about his party's alleged weeks of planning to end the traffic light coalition. "It's an election campaign. Where is the news?", said the former Federal Finance Minister on Saturday in Berlin. After all, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) "admitted that he had already thought about my dismissal in the summer" "And of course the FDP would have had to leave the coalition without an economic turnaround," said Lindner, referring to the months-long dispute in the traffic light coalition about the right course in economic and budgetary policy. "That's why I suggested to Olaf Scholz a common, orderly path to new elections. So where is the news?" On Friday evening, "Zeit online" and the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported on a series of meetings of leading FDP representatives in which the government's break-up had been meticulously prepared since the end of September. "Zeit online" spoke of a veritable "script". According to both media outlets, the exit project was internally called Project "D-Day". SPD government members reacted indignantly. "Responsibility as a foreign word, malice as a method," wrote Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) on the online service X on Saturday night. He was "deeply shocked by this behavior of the FDP." Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) called the approach "shabby" and "an unbelievable disappointment."