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German Social Democrats upbeat about three-way coalition talks

October 7, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

October 7, 2021

By Alexander Ratz

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) began their first three-way talks with two smaller “kingmaker” parties on Thursday, confident they can move closer to leading a new government following an inconclusive national election.

The Greens and business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) agreed on Wednesday to enter the talks with the centre-left SPD, which narrowly beat outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in the Sept. 26 election but without securing a majority.

Unlike many other European countries, where the president or monarch invites one party leader to try to form a government, in Germany it is up to the parties https://reut.rs/3l7wtoM themselves to decide.

SPD co-leader Norbert Walter-Borjans said the three parties would get straight down to working on bridging their differences “one by one”, with a view to forming a so-called “traffic light” coalition – named after their respective colours.

“We don’t want to talk about each other. We want to talk with each other,” SPD co-leader Norbert Walter-Borjans said on arriving for the talks. “I have a good feeling that we have common convictions, that we want to take the country forward.”

Speaking in Rome, Merkel said the formation of a new coalition would “certainly happen more quickly this time than was the case when the government was last formed.”

After the last federal election on Sept. 24, 2017, it took until March, 2018 for the new government to take office.

At stake in the talks is Germany’s political future after 16 years with Merkel at the helm, its appetite to shape Europe’s largest economy for the digital era, and the extent of its willingness to engage with allies on global issues.

Both the Greens and FDP have kept in reserve the option of pursuing negotiations with the conservatives, but they said on Wednesday https://reut.rs/3ldwc3I there would be no parallel talks for now.

A “traffic light” coalition already governs in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, but such a formation would be a first at federal level in Germany.

The FDP and Greens, far apart on many key policy areas, have already worked to find common ground in bilateral talks.

FDP leader Christian Lindner said on Wednesday his party, which has a greater policy overlap with the conservatives, shared with the Greens “a mutual conviction that there must be renewal in this country”.

Ahead of Thursday’s talks, Greens co-leader Robert Habeck told broadcaster ZDF the substance of the meeting must remain confidential: “There needs to be a haven of trust that allows the partners to try things out,” he said.

(Writing by Paul Carrel,Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

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David Barret
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