Prime Minister Luc Frieden is once again hoping for greater political stability in neighboring Germany after the federal elections on February 23. “In the last months or years of the traffic light coalition, this stability has not been very much seen from the outside,” said Luc Frieden, before an appearance at the CSU parliamentary group retreat in the Seeon monastery in Upper Bavaria.
This is why a future federal government should learn “lessons from this instability”. A coherent and stable policy in Germany is also in the interest of neighboring states and all of Europe, the CSV party minister-president stressed.
“That is why we very much hope that an election result will lead to a stable government in Germany.” However, he does not wish to interfere from the outside, any more than in the current debate on coalitions in Austria. “Coalitions with far-right parties are dangerous (…). This is why, to strengthen democracy, we need strong political parties from the center and not parties from the extreme right or extreme left,” he warned.
“I firmly believe, as the head of government of a stable majority in a democracy, that democracy will not be strengthened if extreme parties gain success,” Frieden said. “On the contrary. This may seem democratic at first. It usually ends, as history has taught us, with less democracy, less rights and less freedom.”
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