Merkel's shadow disappeared: Merz starts with inexperienced cabinet!

Merkel's shadow disappeared: Merz starts with inexperienced cabinet!

Donaueschingen, Deutschland - Friedrich Merz was sworn in as the new Chancellor and has a government that consists of a coalition of the CDU, CSU and SPD. A total of sixteen ministers work in his cabinet, with the CDU and the SPD represent seven ministers each, while the CSU is represented with two ministerial posts. Among the new ministers is a non -party minister, Dr. Karsten Wildberger, who heads the newly founded Ministry of Digitization and State Modernization, which has so far been unique in the current political landscape Morgenpost .

Chancellor Merz has deliberately avoided ministers from the Merkel era and put together an inexperienced government team. This decision also includes that Jens Spahn, a prominent member of the former government, was not accepted into the cabinet, but takes over the chairmanship. Merz himself was politically not active from 2009 to 2021 and therefore also brings no current government experience with Fixed .

The ministers in the new cabinet

The ministries are made up of a variety of new faces. Among them are Johann WadePhul, who acts as Foreign Minister, and Nina Warken, who heads the Ministry of Health. So far, both have no experience in government offices. Karsten Wildberger brings experience from the electronics trade, but is also new to politics. Further ministerial posts, such as those of Patrick Schnieder for Transport and Alois Rainer for Agriculture, show that many members of the cabinet have a low experience at the local level reports Morgenpost .

The new ministers, however, have extensive political backgrounds: Lars Klingbeil, the Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister, and Bärbel BAS, the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, present themselves as experienced representatives of their parties. Boris Pistorius remains in office as Minister of Defense and has a certain leadership experience. Verena Hubertz, Minister of Construction, and Reem Alabali-Radovan, Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, are the only representatives of Generation Y in the cabinet emphasizes the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung .

social and economic focus

The new coalition agreement provides for ambitious plans. A guarantee of the pension level of 48 percent by 2031 is legally determined, whereby the mother's pension should be expanded and the citizens' allowance should be under tightened obligations to cooperate. The partly controversial "Heizungs*law" is to be replaced by a more flexible building energy network that includes various technologies So the website Germany.de .

Nevertheless, the SPD remains the dominant force in the federal budget. Despite a lower proportion of 16.4 percent, it controls over two thirds of the federal budget. This is in contrast to the Union, which has achieved a vote of 28.5 percent. In the cabinet, 44 percent of the items are occupied by women, while the proportion of women in the Bundestag is only about a third Märkische General on .

The policy of the new federal government is also shaped by the endeavor not to undermine asylum law and at the same time use all the rule of law against irregular migration. Advances in these areas are expected in the coming months, while the government has to navigate through a variety of new challenges.