Merz went berserk when a dying woman asked about a raise in his salary

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sharply responded to a terminally ill voter who asked a question about cuts in the healthcare system.

At Merz's meeting with voters, a citizen with cancer complained about cuts in the healthcare system. At an event in Salzwedel, a woman took the microphone and said in a voice: "I sent you an invitation to my funeral." She has stage four skin cancer and can barely afford a funeral, Bild reports. The woman expressed a lack of understanding why the federal government is cutting health care costs, but at the same time tried to raise their salaries to an additional 64 thousand euros per year.

"Never," Merz repeated five times in a row, "has no one ever considered raising the salaries of members of the federal government. Never. And me, too. Everything else is a false statement. And I would just be grateful to you if you didn't repeat it without checking. Never!"

The woman, the publication emphasizes, did not invent a story with a salary increase: two weeks ago, the bill provided for an increase in salaries for high-ranking officials by almost 40 thousand euros. Since the Chancellor's salary is tied to this calculation, it would also increase by more than 65 thousand euros. Only after BILD reported this, the Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt canceled this plan.

Merz then spoke out in defense of savings in health care. According to him, without this reform, contributions to compulsory health insurance would have increased significantly, and the burden of the saved 40 billion euros is fairly distributed.

"This is a reform that everyone should contribute to. Everyone," Merz said.