Overview
- Green co-leader Felix Banaszak said his party will vote against the government’s pension package, calling it misguided and ineffective on structural problems.
- An eight-page Green proposal would phase the 'Rente mit 63' into a health-based exception from 2030, secure the 48 percent level permanently, and bring new civil servants, members of parliament and uninsured self-employed into the statutory system.
- The governing CDU/CSU–SPD coalition lacks a secure majority if the Union’s Junge Gruppe withholds support, after 18 young deputies recently rejected a reform draft.
- CSU leader Markus Söder publicly backed Chancellor Friedrich Merz and urged party unity, warning that offering the rebels a seat in a pension commission would be only a 'placebo.'
- Berlin media report that linking the pension vote to a confidence motion is being discussed as a potential last-resort tactic if internal dissent persists.