Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party and the Greens didn’t compromise enough during coalition negotiations and that’s why Germany has fallen into political instability, a member of the FDP told CNBC Tuesday.
“If it had been that way (with more compromise), we would probably have a different talk today,” Otto Fricke, a member of the Federal Board of the FDP told CNBC.
Media reports suggest that the liberal pro-business party had been offered a lot in talks but decided nonetheless to walk out from the negotiations and send the country into political turmoil.
“When you do ask the Christian Democrats and Greens, who we were talking with, ‘So what did you give us? Where did you make a compromise that was going a way from your program towards our direction?’ The concrete answer is a zero. And that was the problem,” Fricke told CNBC.
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