Germany: negotiations between Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals begin to form

Ecologists and the FDP announced, Wednesday, their willingness to continue discussions with the OLAF SCHOLZ SPD. Such a coalition, called “tricolor fire”, would be unpublished at the federal level.

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One after the other, Wednesday, October 6, the Greens and the Liberal Party FDP, the two “king makers” as a result of the German election of September 26, announced to the press their intention to Continue negotiations together and with the Social Democrat Party (SPD), with a view to forming a government.

They kicked off an unprecedented political alliance at the federal scale in Germany: a “tricolor fire” coalition (red for SPD, yellow for the FDP, green for ecologists), Who, in case of success, would reject Christians-Democrats (CDU and CSU Bavarian) in the opposition, for the first time in sixteen years.

Thursday, October 7, a first meeting between the three courses must take place, later confirmed the SPD candidate, Olaf Scholz, who sees his project to become Chancellor “before Christmas” more and more likely.

These ads end at ten days of intense bilateral discussions since the elections in the Bundestag of September 26th. Now, only the three parties wishing to govern together will engage in talks. The co-chairs of the Greens, Annalyna Baerbock and Robert Habeck, and the head of the FDP, Christian Lindner, excluded, on Wednesday morning, any parallel negotiation with the CUU-CSU, even if they did not closer the door to a recovery of Talks in case negotiations with the SPD fail.

Reversing hierarchies

In the afternoon, Markus Söder, the head of the Bavarian Christian Union CSU, however, has politely shifted the offer: “Once a path is started, you have to follow it,” A-T -He declared, visibly disappointed. Armin Leschet, the President of the CDU, for his part, stated that he remained open to the discussion. The Liberal Christian Lindner, who recalled that an alliance with Christians-Democrats and the Greens still seemed to him “the strongest in terms of content”, declined before the Conservative divisions.

In this post-election exploratory phase, was unpublished and testifies to the tectonics of ongoing plaques within the German political landscape, which has six formations.

We first attend a reversal of hierarchies. It is the little parties, and no longer the big ones, who have mastered the dynamics of preliminary discussions, because of the electoral erosion of the major CU-CSU and SPD government courses, which have obtained less than 30% of the vote and no longer want to govern together. No coalition can therefore be formed without bringing together three parties. What places the Greens (14.8% of the Voices) and the FDP (11.5%) in the position of pivots … provided you get along.

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