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Anton Hofreiter: "What does the other side need so that it can work?"
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Green parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter has announced talks in a small circle with the FDP.
"It will first be spoken in a very small circle between the FDP and the Greens," he said in the ARD "Morgenmagazin".
"You will see: What are the similarities, but what does the other side also need in order for it to work."
It is important to him to modernize the state and comply with the Paris climate agreement.
A coalition should not work towards the »lowest common denominator«.
"It must be perfectly clear that the next decade will be an investment decade." He also considered opening the debt brake - "otherwise we will go into debt with the young people in the country".
Konstantin Kuhle, domestic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, also considers preliminary coalition talks with the Greens to be a good idea.
"We see that yesterday began a new chapter for the party system in Germany: The Greens and the FDP together achieve more percent than the Union and the SPD," said Kuhle.
That is why it makes sense to consider together "which form of modernization is possible for the country".
There are "fundamental differences" between the FDP and the Greens, for example when it comes to coping with climate change or in economic and financial policy, emphasized Kuhle.
“Nevertheless, in the past four years, respect for each other in Parliament has grown.” In terms of content, both parties would have to move towards each other.
Kuhle considers a Jamaican alliance of the Union, Greens and FDP to be more likely than an alliance led by the SPD.
"Jamaica is more likely yesterday than the three weeks before," he said
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It had previously become apparent that the SPD would be "very clearly ahead," but with the current performance of the CDU, the two parties would be close, said the FDP politician.
The chairmen of the Greens and the FDP had already signaled their interest in the evening after the election to first explore possibilities for government cooperation before talks with the SPD or the Union.
FDP leader Christian Lindner said on Sunday evening in the "Berlin Round" of ARD and ZDF that the Greens and FDP should "talk to each other first and see where there could be common ground."
as / AFP / dpa
