JAKARTA - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced further changes in his government and will need at least a few more days to make decisions regarding the cabinet line-up.
Chancellor Merz said this after he announced a cabinet reshuffle in his government on Friday.
"I will make these decisions without haste, with great caution, and after conducting the necessary consultations," Merz said, quoted by Sputnik, Friday, July 24.
Meanwhile, the German government's opposition, Vice Chairman of Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alice Weidel, criticized Merz's decision to overhaul the federal cabinet, saying it only worsened the chaos in Germany.
"Merz wants to achieve great success through a cabinet reshuffle, but instead he has caused even more chaos," Weidel, a member of the right-wing party, said on social media.
In the midst of the various heavy challenges currently facing Germany, the German political elite is only busy with internal staffing issues, according to Weidel. In connection with this, he also called for a new federal election in the country.
Earlier on the same day, the Bild newspaper reported that Merz would dismiss Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder.
In the German newspaper's report, Merz is said to be dissatisfied with the work of Schnieder. Merz also did not approve of the performance of Katerina Reiche, the current federal economy minister.
According to the results of a study conducted by the sociology agency, Forsa, as many as 85 percent of Germans assessed Friedrich Merz's performance as chancellor of Germany negatively and 82 percent others expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of his cabinet.
Friedrich Merz announced a cabinet reshuffle in his government on Friday, following the resignation of Jens Spahn for using surrogacy in the United States for his husband.
Jens Spahn is a politician who served as the chairman of the coalition of the center-right political parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), and was in power in the Bundestag.
Spahn resigned on Saturday (18/7) after a scandal broke out when he and his husband paid a woman for surrogacy services in the United States.
Members of the CDU/CSU party coalition, including Chancellor Merz, criticized Spahn's move because surrogacy is prohibited in Germany.
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