Three political parties are beginning in earnest negotiations to form Germany’s first coalition government of the post-Angela Merkel era
on September 26th the Social Democrats —who won a narrow victory over Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats —the Greens, and the Free Democrats , a pro-business party, sounded each other out over a possible “traffic-light” coalition, a name inspired by the parties’ respective colours. On October 15th, after publishing the interim results of their soundings, the trio announced the start of formal talks.A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismGerman coalition negotiations can be fraught.
Time is extremely tight. On November 10th the groups must submit their work to a steering group of party grandees, who will then thrash out the remaining differences in a high-stakes game of political horse-trading. This will also include the distribution of jobs: ministerial portfolios, mainly, but the next government must also choose a new president of the Bundesbank, after Jens Weidmann’s
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