Merkel’s Critics Say She Sold Out Plum Posts to SPD
- Party dissenters blast coalition deal for her fourth term
- Giving up finance is ‘political mistake,’ CDU lawmaker says
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s critics accused her of selling out to the Social Democrats to stay in office, giving a foretaste of party back-biting during her prospective fourth term.
Economic conservatives in Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union were among the first to blast the draft coalition pact, which hands the Finance Ministry to the Social Democrats for the first time in eight years. Others suggested the CDU had missed a chance to rejuvenate its leadership.