Franz Muentefering
Franz Muentefering
Franz Müntefering is a German politician and industrial manager. He was Chairman of the Social Democratic Partyfrom 2004 to 2005 and again from 18 October 2008 to 13 November 2009. He served as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, as well as Vice-Chancellor, from 2005 to 2007...
exception left talk
We will talk to all the parties, with the exception of the Left Party.
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I can no longer be party chairman under these conditions. I left my decision open as to whether I will belong to the cabinet after the next party congress.
handled problem recognized seriously taken
Everything that is recognized as a problem will be taken seriously and handled as such.
government led quickly stable
a stable government for this country, as quickly as possible. A government led by Gerhard Schroeder.
division including initial looking round talks
Compromises had to be made, including the division of the ministries. I think we come out of this initial round of talks looking very successful.
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We don't dispute that unified parliamentary groups can exist, but it must be clear that coalition talks are conducted by individual parties.
few grand none past prepared quite
None of us were prepared for a grand coalition. There was quite a lot to get over, and that's what we did in the past few weeks.
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Money is short and it's clear that milk and honey will not flow, but there will still be healthy bread and decent jam,
clear focused govern nation
We focused on issues, but made it clear that we in the SPD want to govern this nation with Gerhard Schroeder as chancellor.
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We have seven more minutes to score two goals. Talking about who will shower with whom after the game or who will play next time is nonsense.
age agreement coalition consider fact include likely target
We will include the fact that we consider that to be the likely target age in our agreement on a coalition government.
agree higher increases people talks tax taxed
We will only agree to other tax increases in the talks if people with higher incomes are taxed more heavily.
amount good half time weeks
Two and a half weeks is a good amount of time to get a lot of things moving.
cannot conditions party remain
Under these conditions I cannot remain party chairman.