Germany: Greens, FDP Agree to Coalition Talks
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Talks between the Social Democratic Party, Greens, and Free Democrats to form the next German government could start imminently after the parties gave the green light on Wednesday.
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The Greens ruled out allying with the Christian Democrats
The announcement, made today, on Wednesday morning, increases the chance of SPD to lead the next coalition government, and the party’s candidate for chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is one step closer to succeeding outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel and leading Europe’s largest economy into a new era.
Robert Habeck told reporters earlier today that the Greens’ party “is proposing to the FDP to approach the SPD together and then move from the phase of exploratory talks... to three-way talks,” Reuters reported.
“This is a proposal to the FDP for the time being. Let’s see how they respond to it,” Habeck said.
In response, FDP leader Christian Lindner said his party was taking up the Greens’ proposal for three-way talks with the SPD, Reuters reported and had offered to start talks on Thursday.
Following the elections, the Greens and FDP found themselves positioned as “kingmakers” after the election, in which no one party gained a majority of the vote to govern alone.
It is worth mentioning that the center-left SPD won the largest share of the vote with 25.7%, while the CDU-CSU got 24.1%, the Greens got 14.8%, and the FDP got 11.5%, according to provisional results.
