Germany's FDP, Green party to start coalition talks with SPD

BERLIN: A week and a half after the federal election, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Green Party want to start negotiations with th...


BERLIN: A week and a half after the federal election, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Green Party want to start negotiations with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to build a so-called traffic light coalition, the parties announced on Wednesday.

"We have accepted the proposal of a discussion with the SPD to examine common ground that will move our country forward," FDP leader Christian Lindner said during a press conference in Berlin. The talks are to begin the next day.

The same proposal also came from the Greens earlier in the day. "Our country is facing great challenges, great renewal, which we want to and also must tackle responsibly," Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock said in Berlin.

Germany could not afford too long negotiations, "in particular from the experience we have had in recent years," Baerbock said. In the last federal election in 2017, negotiations had dragged on for months.

Olaf Scholz of the SPD, which became the strongest political party in Germany with 25.7 percent of votes in the election, said "it is up to us now" following the FDP and the Greens' announcements.

"The Greens and the FDP see many things very differently," Lindner said. "But we have learned that if we strive for understanding, that a kind of progress-friendly center can then be formed."

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