There is a dispute between the FDP and CDU leader Friedrich Merz over the re-election of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Merz criticized on Deutschlandfunk radio on Friday that the FDP MEPs had not voted for the CDU politician von der Leyen. „For months now, I have had little understanding for the attitude of a whole series of FDP MEPs, both in the European Parliament and in the German Bundestag,“ he said.