German election winner Friedrich Merz is looking at using the outgoing parliament to lift the country’s strict “debt brake” before newly elected far-right and far-left lawmakers can take their seats.
The manoeuvre would allow the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union to reform the borrowing cap to allow more defence spending, which is opposed by the rightwing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and leftwing Die Linke.
The AfD and Die Linke together secured more than a third of the seats in the Bundestag in Sunday’s election, giving them the power in the next parliament to block the constitutional change the debt brake reform would require.
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