The negotiators of the SPD, Greens and FDP have apparently made good progress on the way to forming a traffic light coalition. For next Friday they announced a paper that could be the basis for a decision on coalition negotiations.
The delegations from the SPD, Greens and FDP want to present a basis for decision-making by Friday as to whether or not formal coalition negotiations can take place. This was announced by the Federal Managing Director of the Greens, Michael Kellner, and the General Secretaries of the SPD and FDP, Lars Klingbeil and Volker Wissing, after the most recent exploratory round in Berlin on Tuesday. In the next two days it is the task of the delegations to prepare the next round on Friday. Until then there will be no further talks because Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz (SPD) is attending a meeting of finance ministers in Washington.
Overall, the party spokesman exuded great optimism that a coalition could be formed in the end. “The amount of similarities has increased, the amount of differences has become smaller,” said Kellner, summarizing the status after the most recent rounds of explorations. All relevant topics have been addressed, added SPD General Secretary Klingbeil. There are now two intensive days ahead of the delegations to take a step further on Friday. Klingbeil emphasized that he was in good spirits.
Formulation of the traffic light goals “Hour of Truth”
FDP General Secretary Wissing said the talks were in a good tone, polite and factual. “It is now the moment of truth to formulate this in writing,” said Wissing during the joint press meeting after the exploratory round. But there are still questions to be clarified, said Wissing. As before, the three delegation spokesmen did not comment on any substantive details this time either.
Klingbeil described this as a lesson from past, including failed, explorations and coalition negotiations. The point is not to diminish mutual trust. In all three parties, however, there is an awareness of a shared responsibility to form a new government, said Klingbeil. This awareness was “sharpened” again in the most recent talks. Kellner emphasized that with a possible entry into coalition negotiations, one would enter a further phase. A small party congress of the Greens, which had to agree to the start of coalition negotiations, could be called quickly; the party was “able to make decisions quickly” on this point.
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