We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3 rd parties based on our understanding. According to German media, the SPD, Greens and FDP will start formal coalition negotiations this afternoon. Before the start of the official traffic light talks, the general secretaries of the SPD and FDP, Lars Klingbeil and Volker Wissing, as well as the Greens managing director Michael Kellner, appeared in front of the press.
Olaf Scholz is expected to be announced as the German Chancellor in December.
Klingbeil announced that the 22 working groups will start work next Wednesday and should submit their first papers by November 10th.
The final negotiating groups would then clarify the main details of the coalition agreement.
The exploration talks have given us courage, says FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing.
Hurdles have already been cleared. A coalition agreement with the SPD and the Greens should be in place by the end of November.
The new Federal Chancellor should then be elected in the week commencing December 6th. It is ambitious. According to the Greens federal manager Michael Kellner, the Greens are optimistic about the coalition talks. This is also evident from the fact that Kellner is expected to be elected Chancellor as early as the week of December 6th, said Olaf Scholz.
The traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP want to take over the government in the second week of December.