"The result from last Tuesday (to promote Maassen) was not a persuasive one. I focused too much on functionality and procedures in the interior ministry while not thinking enough about how the people will feel when they hear promotion. I very much regret that this has happened," the CDU leader said.
Merkel argued that the second coalition compromise reached on Maassen was a "satisfactory one." It gave him a "clearly-defined area of tasks", advising Seehofer on asylum policy and joint European Union (EU) social policies at the same paygrade without amounting to an effective promotion for the civil servant.
The chancellor announced that her priority was now to reach an overdue cabinet agreement on whether to require so-called hardware updates from carmakers in the ongoing "dieselgate" scandal. A cabinet session is scheduled to hold discussion towards that end at the start of next week.
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