These three movements, at very different programs, have been discussing since early October to try to form this new coalition.
Le Monde with AFP
The Social Democrats of the SPD, at the top of the German parliamentary elections, the Greens and the Liberals announced on Friday 15 October to have reached a preliminary agreement with a view to forming a government.
“We have actually managed to agree on a document. It’s a very good result, it clearly shows that a government can be trained in Germany,” greeted the SPD leader, Olaf Scholz, probable future Chancellor replacing Angela Merkel, during a statement to the press with the leaders of the ecologist and liberal parties.
These three movements, very different programs, have been discussing since early October to try to form this unprecedented coalition, without the Conservatives of Angela Merkel who recorded the worst score of their story in the September 26 elections. On the basis of the document presented on Friday, the three parties will deepen their talks and open official negotiations, point by point, all the details of a future alliance.
COALITION “Tricolore fire”
The formation of a new German government is impatiently awaited by the country partners, which fear months of paralysis, particularly at the level of the European Union (EU), if the political vacuum in Berlin is prolonged.
These advances do not yet mean that a “tricolor fire” coalition, according to the color of each of the three parties, will be formed without course and that Olaf Scholz will succeed the Chancellery in Angela Merkel, in position since 2005.
The continuation of the discussions must make it possible to develop a detailed common roadmap between formations that many things oppose, particularly in terms of taxation, with liberals opposed to the tax increases envisaged by the SPD.
The three parties announced Friday wanting to maintain the limitations to the public indebtedness listed in the national constitution and promised not to increase taxes.
The three courses also want to “accelerate” the German exit of coal and advance it to 2030 “in the ideal”, instead of 2038, according to a common document of a dozen pages published on Friday. A limitation of speed on the highway, one of the demands of environmentalists, is not retained.
If the coalition reaches power, it will have work to do, in a delicate context for the German economy, weakened by the shortages of raw materials and components. The target of drastic decline in emissions is also required to require huge investments in construction and transport.