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FDP leader Christian Lindner in Berlin
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The FDP wants to go into three-way talks with the Greens and the SPD.
A corresponding proposal from the Greens was said to have been made in Berlin, head of the FDP, Christian Lindner.
The Greens chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck had previously announced that they wanted to start joint three-way talks with the FDP and SPD.
The Greens initially put further talks with the Union about a possible Jamaican alliance aside.
After the federal election, the Greens and the FDP first explored possible compromise lines with each other and then separately with the SPD as well as with the CDU and CSU.
The two smaller parties are being courted by the SPD and the Union: with the Social Democrats, the formation of a traffic light coalition is in the room, with the Union it would be a Jamaica coalition.
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