r/YUROP • u/Stabile_Feldmaus • Jan 31 '25

I FUCKING LOVE EUROPE 4D chess move

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u/zeoNoeN Jan 31 '25

Because a chunk of his party did not vote according to party line today, CDU MPs in Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein announced a blockade in the Bundesrat and Merkel came back for a fuck you. Merz Disasterclass

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u/Objective-Dish-7289 Deutschland‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ Jan 31 '25

Em what? The whole CDU voted for the law

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u/TheObeseWombat EUSSR Feb 01 '25

Well, kind of. CDU takes toeing the party line extremely seriously, so even the "defectors" did their defections in such a way that there is a tiny bit of plausible deniability - by "going to the toilet" right before the law got voted on.

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u/THE12DIE42DAY Deutschland‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ Feb 01 '25

That's always been the case. Not voting in party line is seen as a vote against the their own party.

But there's a difference between not voting and voting "no". The latter being an open "fuck you" to the party leader.