The Union had invited its party for talks for the coming week, so Baerbock. The Greens and the FDP initiated talks on forming a government with a four-person meeting on Tuesday evening.
The Greens chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck as well as FDP boss Christian Lindner and Wissing then published a photo of the quartet on Instagram and wrote: “In the search for a new government, we sound out similarities and bridges across divisions. And even find some. Exciting times. “
The declared aim of both parties is to establish basic lines for political cooperation – a “restart” of government policy. The talks with the two stronger potential partners who could provide the chancellor in a three-party alliance, the Greens and FDP now want to conduct separately. “Everyone has to want to work with everyone, so this has to be clarified in bilateral talks,” said Wissing, explaining the reasons.
The CDU / CSU fell to the low point of 24.1 percent in the general election on Sunday. The SPD was the strongest force with 25.7 percent. The Greens came as the third strongest force with 14.8 percent. Behind was the FDP with 11.5 percent.
The Union now wants to form a Jamaica coalition with the Greens and the FDP. As the strongest force, the SPD wants to bring about a traffic light with the Greens and the FDP.
The SPD is still quite sure that it can form a government with the Greens and the FDP. SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz once again strongly promoted it. “Something fits together if you want to bring that together,” he said at an event of the parliamentary left in the SPD parliamentary group in Berlin.
