On 29 August 2006, Vice Chancellor Franz Müntefering held a joint press conference in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Without being asked, he said that his party and the Union were being measured against what they had promised during the election campaigns. Then he added: Das ist unfair. (That is unfair.) He named the coalition agreement as the right measure: Das ist die Messlatte, was wir leisten können. (That is the bar for what we can achieve.) In 2009 he was still being quoted as having said Es ist unfair, an den Wahlkampfversprechen gemessen zu werden (It is unfair to be measured against campaign promises). That is not his exact wording.