The German government, which has been in office since May and consists of center-right Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and center-left Social Democrats (SPD), promised the German population that it would refrain from the kind of infighting that made the previous government under former Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) the most unpopular government ever. In some respects, it has succeeded in doing so. There have been heated debates within the government on issues ranging