German Greens Chief Trittin Says Merkel’s Policy Bars Coalition
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The co-leader of Germany’s Greens, Juergen Trittin, sharpened his party’s attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, saying policy differences put them on “collision course” in federal elections this fall.
Trittin, one of his party’s two lead candidates for the Sept. 22 vote, said the opposition Green stance on labor policy, climate change and measures to get more women on company boards were almost irreconcilable with those of Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU. Allying the parties in the face of such a divide wouldn’t be “especially convincing,” he said.