Preliminary agreement to form a government in Germany

Berlin-Sana

The Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party of Germany reached an agreement in principle on the formation of the next government.

"We have agreed on a text, and this is a very good result and it clearly shows that a government can be formed in Germany aimed at ensuring progress," German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrat the most prominent candidate to succeed Angela Merkel in the chancellery, said in a statement today, reported by AFP.

In turn, Annalina Birbock, who co-chairs the Green Party, said: “We managed to have intense discussions until the early hours in order to put a proposal on the table for the Reform and Progress coalition so that we can really take advantage of the next decade to be the decade of renewal.”

The three parties adopt very different programs and have been conducting preliminary consultations since the beginning of October in an attempt to form this unprecedented alliance without the conservatives led by Merkel, who scored the worst result in their history during the legislative elections on the 26th of last September.

According to the text of the agreement presented today, the three parties will work to deepen their talks and open official negotiations that address all the details of the future alliance, and they also intend to increase investments in the coming years, but "within the framework of the German constitutional debt brake" that strictly limits the possibilities of public deficit.

Germany's partners are waiting for the formation of a new government in it, fearing a paralysis that may last for months, especially at the level of the European Union, if the political vacuum in Berlin continues.