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The three parties began talks on October 21 to form a coalition government, the first tripartite government in German history to be completed. The formations indicated that they are seeking an agreement by the end of November which will allow them to elect chancellor and form a government for the first days of December.
One objective in focus: to form a government for the week of December 6. This was expressed by the three parties that since the elections of September 26 in Germany have been approaching and presenting, as more and more plausible, the reality of a tripartite government in the first European economy.
This Thursday, October 21, the center-left Social Democrats of the SPD, the green environmentalists and the Liberal Party (FDP) began formal talks after weeks of previous negotiations that days ago left a preliminary understanding between the three formations.
“We are very ambitious and we want to have a (coalition) agreement by the end of November that will allow us to elect a chancellor for the Federal Republic of Germany in the week of December 6,” said Volker Wissing, secretary general of the FDP.
Unser 🇩🇪 Land braucht schnell eine stabile Regierung.
👉Ende November soll ein 🚦 Vertragswerk vorliegen, das es uns ermöglicht, in der Woche vom 6. Dezember einen Bundeskanzler zu wählen und eine Bundesregierung zu bilden.#vielzutun #ampel pic.twitter.com/EN38Swx6YS– Volker Wissing (@Wissing) October 21, 2021
With the start of talks on Thursday, the goal is to reach an agreement in the coming weeks. It is estimated that this round of dialogues will last until the last week of November and it is in this period that they will have to agree on what the government’s program would be for the next four years.
An agreement on a climate agenda compatible with the social and liberal agenda
So far, among the crucial issues on the table is a robust climate agenda in which the parties have committed to making Germany a country free of coal-based energy by 2030, an ambitious goal that would advance the country’s current commitments. in that sense, set for the moment for 2038.
This demand, driven by the Greens, would drastically determine other aspects of the new government’s political agenda. He will also ask for great efforts from the three parties, since they will have to find ways to finance this objective, especially since the liberals ask in turn that there be no increase in taxes for families, as well as the relaxation of borrowing restrictions or the increase in the minimum wage, a request joined by the Social Democrats.
The tripartite coalition, which would be the first in Germany’s history, would feature the Liberal Democrats, who have mostly sided with the center-right for the past four decades. His union now with left-wing parties is partly a reflection of the weakening of the Christian-democratic Union of the current Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Liberals: ‘We must directly address conflict areas and deal with them’
So far, the talks have taken place harmoniously between the three parties.
“We have a good feeling where the conflict areas are, so we need to address them directly and address them,” Wissing said. “The mood is good, but we know the responsibility that the three parties now have to start the coalition talks successfully and quickly and bring them to a conclusion,” said Social Democrat Lars Klingbeil.
Meanwhile, the Greens, who held a vote over the weekend to decide whether or not to join the talks with the other three forces, have reported that they will present the eventual agreement reached by the three parties to a vote before the members of the party, action that would be carried out before the possible new government assumes its functions.
If the coalition is formed, the one who is projected as the new Chancellor of Germany and Angela Merkel’s successor is the Social Democrat Ofalf Scholz, whose party won a slight victory in the elections, with little difference in votes over Merkel’s CDU, after this force obtained its worst electoral results since World War II.
With AP, AFP and EFE
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