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SummarySPD press conference on resignation from coalition agreement
Part 1: Short interview with Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) about the Unification Treaty. Interview with the GDR Minister of Finance Walter Romberg regarding the coalition crisis, the parliamentary group and the transitional law.
Part 2:
Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) gives an interim report on the upcoming withdrawal of the SPD faction from the coalition. He rebukes the unbiased collaboration of Helmut Kohl (CDU) and Lothar de Maizière (CDU). The decision to withdraw from the coalition was approved by a majority within the SPD parliamentary group. Despite the possible resignation from the coalition, Wolfgang Thierse confirms the SPD's continued interest in the draft unification treaty. The conditions of the agreement, the contents in the unification contract are superficial here. Thierse accuses the CDU of discussing the right to vote and refutes the fact that the SPD's main focus is on election and accession dates. The SPD wants to wait for the content and external (2+4 talks) conditions for the Unification Treaty.... Wolfgang Thierse announced that it had been decided by consensus within the SPD parliamentary group that all ministers and parliamentary state secretaries would leave the coalition and declare their resignation. Wolfgang Thierse justified the resignation from the coalition with the fact that the SPD could not enforce its negotiating position regarding the unification treaty. The clarification of the question of ownership of the citizens of the former GDR is insufficient in the current draft of the Unification Treaty.
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TagsPress conference; Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD); Politics; Unification Treaty; Coalition; Crisis; Faction; Law; Resignation;
