Germany towards the new government: SPD-Verdi-Fdp pact
Three weeks after the federal elections, Germany accelerates towards the ‘traffic light’: the leaders of the SPD, the Greens and the liberals of the FDP have announced their intention to continue with the formal negotiations for a new three-party coalition, after the first rounds of ‘exploration’ talks started after the vote on 26 September.
“We have agreed on a common document that will form the basis for the start of negotiations between the three parties”Said Olaf Scholz, presenting himself alongside the leaders of the environmentalist party, Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, and the head of the FDP, Christian Lindner. The text was defined by the candidate chancellor of the Social Democrats as “a very good result”, aimed at building “an executive of progress in many fields, from the development of society and the economy, through modernization and digitization, to a new investment season “.
The ambitions are high, makes Scholz understand. Talk about a “A new start” and of the possibility of “an industrial modernization of the country”, of “massive investments in renewable energy”, all characteristics of what according to the Social Democrat could be “the greatest innovation project in 100 years in Germany”.
Basically, after almost 20 days of first informal and then ‘exploration’ meetings, the leaders of the SPD, the Greens and the liberals are now asking the assemblies of their respective parties to give their consent to the actual negotiations: the presidency of the Social Democratic party has already given its green light, while the environmentalists have set for Sunday a ‘small congress’ in which to vote in favor of the ‘qualitative leap’ in the negotiations for a ‘traffic light’ coalition (so named due to of the characteristic colors of the three parties, red for the SPD, yellow for the liberals and green for the ‘Gruenen’, of course).