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04/09/2025April 9, 2025
What could be announced on Wednesday?
According to German broadcaster ARD, the negotiators might either announce only a coalition deal or include the names of the parties and/or people that would take on the various portfolios.
ARD notes three different possible scenarios for the announcement.
- The negotiating parties might present only a coalition agreement without naming ministers or saying which party is to hold which ministry. In this variant, public debate following the announcement would focus on what policy directions have been agreed.
- The parties could announce just an agreement along with a list of to which parties the ministries would be assigned, but without naming names. This would inevitably lead to a public debate and speculation on who would head each ministry.
- The third, most comprehensive possibility — and, according to ARD, the least likely because of the complexity of the decisions involved — is for all three elements to be announced: the policies agreed, the distribution of the ministries among the parties and the names of the ministers.
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Why is Germany seeking a ‘grand coalition’?
At snap elections on February 23, called after Germany’s previous three-way , the conservative CDU/CSU bloc received the largest percentage of votes (28.5%).
The second biggest party was the far-right party on 20.8%.
As all mainstream parties in Germany however, a coalition of the conservatives with with the SPD — which received just 16.4% — was the most practical way of obtaining a parliamentary majority in the 630-seat Bundestag, with 328 seats combined.
There has been a sense of urgency in the negotiations, as many are looking to Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, to provide leadership at a time of great global upheavals and security threats.
These include the imposition of new , growing Russian aggression amid and the increasing strength of far-right elements in
Germany has had four grand coalition governments at federal level — governments in which the conservatives and the left-leaning Social Democrats have joined forces — since 1966.
Such alliances have been much more frequent at the level of the German states.
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Germany’s conservative , along with their Bavarian sister party the , are reportedly close to reaching a final deal on forming a coalition with the center-left of outgoing Chancellor .
The coalition negotiations have been running since shortly after February 23 elections from which the conservatives emerged as the largest grouping in parliament.
If a coalition deal is announced on Wednesday, the SPD says it will hold a digital vote among its members on whether to approve it, while the CDU would hold a so-called small party congress to decide. The CSU needs only a decision by its board.
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