The general election is in around two months.
In the middle of the election campaign everything seems to have been decided - at least according to FDP leader Christian Lindner.
Berlin - FDP leader Christian Lindner believes the federal election two months before the election date has been decided.
"In my eyes, as I expected, it has already been clarified who will move into the Chancellery," he said in the summer interview with ARD.
The contract to form a government will almost certainly go to the CDU and its candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet.
The question is who will then take on important roles and become finance minister, for example.
"I would be ready to take on that - with respect for the debt brake, with the clear statement that taxes should not be increased in the highest tax country if we want jobs and private investments," said Lindner.
Union clearly ahead of green and red in the survey
In polls for the federal election, the Union is currently well ahead of the Greens and the SPD.
However, surveys only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not predictions of the outcome of the election.
As things stand, Lindner sees no real chance for a traffic light coalition made up of the Greens, the SPD and the FDP. "I do not see that there are arithmetically or in terms of political content sufficient similarities for a traffic light model," he said. "I lack the imagination which content-related offer Annalena Baerbock could make to the FDP that would be more attractive than the offers that Ms. Merkel made four years ago." Dpa