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Freedrich Mirz, who holds German election, explores ways to reduce the strict borrowing ceiling in the country by restoring outgoing parliament as the main parties still hold a supernatural wage.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the center said that he regretted that the right -wing and real -wicked parties have received more than a third of the seats in Bundestag, giving them the ability to prevent any constitutional changes, including the so -called debt brake.

The alternative to Germany (AFD) and DIE Linke said they are opposed to repairing debt brakes to finance more defensive spending.

But Mirz noted that the main parties are still behaving under the current legislature, which will continue until March 24. He said he would talk to social democrats, vegetables and free free democrats on finding a solution before.

“Before I publicly predict this topic, allow me to talk about it with social Democrats and FDP and also the Greens now in the next few days. This means that we still have four weeks to think about it.”

Mirz added that Bundestag “is able to make decisions at any time” and “act without any interruption, even after the elections.”

CDU and its Bavarian brother CSU won 28.5 percent of the German Parliament elections, which led to the cleansing of the Merz of Olaf Scholz as a consultant. But AFD and Die Linke have won more than 210 seats required for the “minority ban”.

This gives them the authority to prevent any amendment to the German debt brakes, a base dedicated to the constitution in 2009 to reduce government borrowing and maintain the structural deficit by 0.35 percent of GDP.

The same condition applies to the creation of a special paper for the sheet outside the balance, such as the 100 billion euros, announced by Schulz in 2022 to finance a comprehensive reform of the German armed forces after Vladimir Putin’s full invasion of Ukraine.

During the campaign, Mirz insisted that he be committed to debt brakes, while not excluding discussions on how to modify them. But economists have warned that without changing the ruling or creating a special fund outside the budget, it will be impossible to finance tens of billions of euros from an additional investment required in the largest economy in the euro area.

This includes money for transportation and communications infrastructure, as well as a much higher defense budget in the widespread invasion of Russia for Ukraine.

The scope of the challenge was doubled by the last axis of US President Donald Trump towards Russia and its threat to withdraw American security guarantees from Europe, which forced European leaders to hold crises on how to respond.

Although Mirz said he believed he could find money to finance investment by reducing social welfare payments and stimulating economic growth, many analysts do not believe that such measures will be sufficient.

While the outgoing Bundestag contract for approval of decisions is not without a precedent.

In October 1998, about three weeks after the federal elections, but before the presence of a new government, a special session was held to agree to the participation of the German armed forces in NATO air strikes in Kosovo in an attempt to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

According to the constitution, the new German parliament must meet no later than 30 days after the elections. But Bundestag president can go to Parliament earlier at the request of a third of its members, the federal president, or the adviser.

“This scenario was” difficult but technically possible. ” But he warned that the opposition “will have a good issue to challenge any decision in the Constitutional Court because the change will be long -term.”

Green Leader Robert Habik said on Monday that he preferred the rapid reform of the debt brakes before the new parliament was installed, while the Schulz Parliament, who is still an assault adviser until it was elected by Parliament, was more wisely interacting.

“In the event of conversations, everything possible should be discussed, with great caution,” said Schulz, who is the only coalition partner in Merz’s CDU/CSU.

The outgoing Finance Minister Juerg Cookies, from the Social Democratic Party, said that there was “little time” to stand through such changes, adding that it will be “a doubtful political sign if it is now made by constitutional amendments by an old majority.”

Meanwhile, Alice and the co -leader of AFD chanted her opposition to such a reform. “The state should not spend more than it brings,” she said, adding that its opposition also extended to the option to create a special defensive box.

Ensem Chouener, the co -commander of Die Linke, said the party can agree to change the debt brakes provided that more state money is invested in social infrastructure. But it repeated the party’s position that it would not vote in favor of strengthening the army or sending weapons to Ukraine.