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Green boss Baerbock, Habeck: "Good chances of going strong in the next government"
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After their good result in the federal election, the Greens are keeping all coalition options open.
"We want to govern," said co-chairman Robert Habeck in Berlin.
The Greens would have "good chances of going strong in the next government."
If Habeck has its way, the first thing to do is to talk to the FDP.
The Greens are “close to the SPD”, but an alliance with the FDP would also have to find its own political strength.
Habeck emphasized that this is also possible under the leadership of the Union.
It is important that a government find the right answers to the questions of the time.
Habeck already has experience with a Jamaican coalition: In Schleswig-Holstein he once led the Greens into a coalition with the FDP and CDU.
Baerbock hopes for "climate government"
His co-chairwoman and green candidate for Chancellor Annalena Baerbock emphasized that she wanted a "climate government": "We are now continuing to fight for this with all of you."
That didn't work out, also due to my own mistakes.
In the latest projections by ARD and ZDF, the Greens are between 14.6 and 14.7 percent.
A significant improvement compared to the last election: In 2017, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen won 8.9 percent of the votes.
The SPD comes in the extrapolations to 24.9 to 25.6 percent, the Union to 24.4 to 24.7 percent.
11.6 to 11.7 percent voted for the FDP.
The AfD gets 10.3 to 11.1 percent.
The left is at 5 percent.
Mathematically, the CDU / CSU and SPD could again form a grand coalition - but both parties have so far excluded that.
This makes a three-way alliance possible: the Union could rule with the FDP and the Greens in a Jamaican coalition, the SPD, on the other hand, could form a traffic light with the FDP and the Greens.
Unlikely, but just as possible: a Germany coalition made up of the Union, SPD and FDP.
The Greens were then left out.
mrc / dpa / Reuters
