BERLIN, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Alexander Hahn, member of the directorate of the German Liberal party (FDP), has demanded that his party would claim the ministry of finance in any possible government.
Speaking to German newspaper BILD, Hahn said that "FDP should not enter any government in which it does not provide the finance minister."
Six days before the election, polls see three different governments as possible outcomes to the federal election in Germany. A continuation of the grand coalition between Merkel's christian democrats (CDU) and the social democratic party (SPD), a three-party coalition between CDU, FDP and the green party, as well as a coalition between CDU and FDP only.
Hahn reasons that only with a FDP-led finance ministry "could central election promises like a better financing of education and a reform of the tax system be guaranteed."
Merkel's party will be the senior partner in all possible governments and has already deflected the FDP claim via vize-chairman of the christian union, Michael Fuchs (CDU): "With Wolfgang Schaeuble, we have an excellent finance minister. This is why he should remain federal finance minister after the election."
FDP leader Christian Lindner has not made any commitments on his future position yet. He told SPIEGEL on Sunday that such decisions are not on the agenda at the moment and are "distracting from our goal to become third power" in Germany.
