• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Germany’s Greens meet conservatives for crunch coalition talks

October 5, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

October 5, 2021

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Greens met Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Tuesday for talks to explore whether they and a smaller liberal party could form a new coalition government following last month’s national election.

A close result in the election on Sept. 26, when no party won an overall majority, has kicked off a round of coalition talks that could last months, with the conservatives and Social Democrats courting smaller “kingmakers” with the aim of securing power.

Unlike some other countries, where the president or monarch invites parties to enter talks on forming a government, in Germany it is up to the parties https://reut.rs/3A8VqVj themselves to find their own partners.

The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), who narrowly won the election, said on Sunday they were ready to move to three-way coalition talks https://reut.rs/3l7wtoM with the Greens and business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP).

Tuesday’s talks should help the Greens decide whether they want to join a government led by the SPD or by the conservatives, who slumped to a record low result in the election but have not given up hope of holding the chancellery.

“I am optimistic that we will make a big step forward this week,” senior Greens lawmaker Michael Kellner told broadcaster RTL/ntv, adding that he was confident the Greens and FDP would agree together on which larger ally to team up with.

So far, two smaller parties, which are from opposite ends of the political spectrum and at odds on a range of issues, have worked hard to bridge their differences and kept open the option of forming a coalition with the SPD, or with the conservatives.

The FDP said after weekend talks with both larger parties that they and the SPD faced hurdles to an alliance. That raises the stakes for Tuesday’s meeting between the conservatives and the Greens.

Greens co-leader Annalena Baerbock has said they will decide how to proceed after Tuesday’s meeting.

Polls show voters would prefer the SPD, rather than the conservatives, to lead a coalition with the Greens and FDP – dubbed a “traffic light” alliance after the parties’ respective colours.

Merkel, in power since 2005, plans to step down once a new government is formed and will stay on until that point. Armin Laschet, chairman of her conservative Christian Democrats, wants to succeed her as chancellor but he is unpopular with voters.

(Reporting by Alexander Ratz; Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

Source Link Germany’s Greens meet conservatives for crunch coalition talks

David Barret
David Barret

Related posts:

  1. Canadian miner Teck considers sale, spinoff of $8 billion coal unit – Bloomberg News
  2. App Annie and co-founder charged with securities fraud, will pay $10M+ settlement
  3. China reports 73 new coronavirus cases for Sept 14 vs 92 day earlier
  4. Nine Hong Kong activists get 6-10 months in prison for unauthorised Tiananmen vigil

Filed Under: News

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • Man Broke Down Wall In His Basement And Discovered An Ancient Underground City That Once Housed 20,000 People
  • Same-Sex Penguin Couple Adopt And Raise Chick – And They’ve All Got 10/10 Names
  • Dolphins May Not “See” With Echolocation, But Instead “Feel” With It
  • Confirmed! Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Indeed An Interstellar Visitor, Quite Different From Its Predecessors
  • At 192, Jonathan – The Oldest Living Land Animal – Has Lived Through 40 US Presidents
  • 300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools “Made By Denisovans” Discovered In China
  • Why Do Cats Eyes Glow? For The Same Reason Great White Sharks’ Do, Silly
  • G-astronomical News: Michelin-Starred Meal To Be Served On The ISS
  • In 2032, Earth May Witness A Once-In-5,000-Year Event On The Moon
  • Brand New Microscope Designed For Underwater Reveals Stunning Details Of Corals
  • The Atlantic’s Major Circulation Current Is Showing Worrying Signs, But Is Collapse Near?
  • “The Rings Held The Answer”: How We Finally Figured Out Saturn’s Day Length In 2019
  • Mystery Of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” Solved By A Dentist And A Protractor
  • Asteroid Ryugu’s Latest Mineral Is As Weird As Finding “A Tropical Seed In The Arctic”
  • IFLScience The Big Questions: Are We Living Through A Sixth Mass Extinction?
  • Alien Abduction Or A Trick Of The Mind? A Down To Earth Explanation Of Close Encounters
  • Six Months Into Trump’s Presidency, Americans Report Record Low Pride In Being American
  • TikToker Unknowingly Handles Extremely Venomous Cone Snail And Lives To Tell The Tale
  • Scientists Sequence Oldest Egyptian DNA To Date, From A Whopping 4,800 Years Ago
  • “Uncharted Waters”: Large Hadron Collider Begins Colliding Oxygen For The First Time
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version