Angela Merkel described Friedrich Merz as a politician with “absolute will to rule” after his agreement on the government with the SPD.
The likely future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to Angela Merkel, is to “absolute will to rule”. She said this on Thursday, the day after Merz’s Christian Democratic CDU/CSU agreed on a new government with social Democrats (SPD). TASR writes about this based on the DPA report.
Merz and Merkel were in the past the intra -party rivals for the maintenance of the CDU/CSU Conservative Block. Merkel won the fight and in 2002 the CDU leadership took over. From November 22, 2005, the Federal Cabinet has led 5,860 days, ten days less than the longest ruling office Helmut Kohl.
Political rivalry
“There was a simple fact between us that occurs quite often in life, and that we both wanted to be leaders,” commented the excalator for the public service Radio Deutschlandfunk.
Relations between Merkel and Merz were cold especially after it forced him to resign as chairman of the parliamentary club in 2002.
Merz then withdrew from politics. He returned only after Merkel’s departure to the political pension and was elected to the Federal Assembly in 2021. In the same year he took over the CDU management.
Although Merkel criticized Merza’s steps during the election campaign before the February parliamentary elections, the SMS reportedly congratulated him on victory, DPA writes.
