BERLIN, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that she could not guarantee all the policy pledges made by her new government would come into force because they needed approval by Germany's states.
"The coalition deal stands, but putting it into force depends on the federal states," Merkel told ARD public television in an interview. "We will try to push through what we agreed but there are no guarantees."
Merkel said, however, that she was confident her new coalition would deliver a simplification of German tax brackets, even if the details still needed to be worked out.
"Yes I'm very sure this will come. That is what we have agreed," she said.
(Writing by Noah Barkin)