AfD and Left: Common fight against the controversial financial package!

AfD and Left: Common fight against the controversial financial package!

On March 17, 2025, the AfD parliamentary group asked the Left Party to demand the new Bundestag's convening in order to influence the planned financial package of the grand coalition. Sahra Wagenknecht, head of the alliance for solidarity and prosperity (BSW) and ex-member of the Left, called the Left Party to prevent the financial package together with the AfD, which it describes as "the greatest debt and upgrade program in the history of the Federal Republic". However, the Left Party, represented by its parliamentary managing director Christian Görke, rejected this claim and emphasizes that it will not work with the AfD, which is enforcement of the constitution. There are also legal concerns about the AfD's advance, since they cannot submit a basis for the convening of the new Bundestag. According to FR.DE , the AfD and the left aim to prevent the Union and SPD from voting on the financial package.

Those responsible in the coalition, CDU boss Friedrich Merz and SPD leader Lars Klingbeil, have already collected the necessary votes for the financial package in the old Bundestag. In the meantime, thanks to the support of the left, the AfD can form a blocking minority to block important decisions about the financing of the Bundeswehr and the suspension of the debt brake in the new Bundestag.

legal challenges

In a further step, several AfD members submitted an urgent application to the Federal Constitutional Court to prohibit the Bundestag President Bärbel BAS to convene special meetings for the debate on constitutional applications. These applications are particularly explosive, since they aim to suspend the debt brake, which is Zeit.de according to one billion-dollar investment in the infrastructure and the Bundeswehr. The AfD argues that only the newly elected Bundestag is entitled to such far -reaching decisions and that the previous sessions are therefore not legitimate.

The complaints, including an application by the left, which also aims at the inadmissibility of the convening of the Old Bundestag, is currently underway at the Federal Constitutional Court. The focus is on the fact that for the first time the new MPs Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken argue that they are violated in their participation rights by the invitation of the Old Bundestag. The discussion about the convening of the old Bundestag reflects the uncertainties and tension -charged political negotiations that take place in the run -up to the Bundestag election 2025.

political effects of the Bundestag election 2025

The Bundestag election, which will take place on February 23, 2025, has a major impact on the country's financial and economic policy. The political orientation is re -evaluated with challenges such as economic uncertainties, increasing public debt and social tensions. In particular, the future handling of debt brake is a central topic, the debate of which has been managed since 2009. The Tagesbriefing.de emphasizes that the coalition negotiations for more freedom of investment and the debate about tax policy, including a possible reform of corporate taxation, are dominated.

The upcoming financial decisions will be crucial for the direction in which Germany will develop. It remains uncertain whether tax relief or additional financial burdens occur. As part of this discussion, the question of future pension models could also be decisive, especially in view of the failed "Lindner pension", which has pushed a long-term pension reform into the background.