After weeks of negotiations, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) will present a coalition deal to form a new government.
Talks took on a sense of urgency amid a host of global and domestic challenges.
German news agency DPA has reported, citing insiders, that the Christian Democrats (CDU) of Friedrich Merz would take on the foreign ministry for the first time in almost 60 years in the new coalition government.
The SPD would be assigned the finance and defence ministries, while the interior ministry would be taken by the conservative bloc of CDU and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU).
After the coalition deal was presented yesterday, it still required approval by the three parties involved.
In the case of the SPD, this means a digital ballot of its rank-and-file members.
CDU will hold a vote on the deal at a party convention, while with the CSU, a decision by the party’s steering committee will suffice for approval.
– DW
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