Exceptionally short, the electoral campaign in view of the legislative elections of February 23, 2025 in Germany requires the parties to work at an accelerated pace. While the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was to be the subject of a vote of no confidence on Monday, December 16, which will pave the way for the dissolution of the Bundestag, the electoral programs of the CDU-CSU and the SPD began to be undermined. in the German press in recent days. They must be presented and formally adopted on December 17.
Economy, immigration, energy, social… The two projects are opposed on everything, except for the privileged treatment reserved for retirees, who represent a large third of the German electorate. For the latter, the two major parties are aligned, promising not to touch the level of pensions and refraining from raising the question of the retirement age (at 67), while the German retirement system is threatened by the demographic evolution of the country. Only the CDU-CSU proposes to encourage workers to work longer, through a tax exemption on wages of up to 2,000 euros per month.
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Source: Lemonde