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How long will it take until the new coalition? A station wagon holds the pace record

2021-10-24T06:59:26.433Z


Will Olaf Scholz be Chancellor in December? Or is Angela Merkel still giving the New Year's address? A look at history gives an idea of ​​how long the negotiations could take.


Will Olaf Scholz be Chancellor in December?

Or is Angela Merkel still giving the New Year's address?

A look at history gives an idea of ​​how long the negotiations could take.

Berlin - With the start of the coalition negotiations, it is still unclear when Germany will have a new government.

Since reunification, the time spans between the election and swearing-in of the new federal cabinet have been very different.

Germany had a new government four times after just a month.

These were real lightning starts compared to 2017: At that time it took almost half a year.

After the first all-German federal election in December 1990, there was a new edition of the ruling black-yellow coalition under Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU).

Forty-seven days passed between the election and the formation of a government.

How long do coalition negotiations last?

Minimum so far: 30 days

It took almost exactly one month to form a government after the elections in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2009. The minimum was 30 days in 1998 and 2002, when the SPD and the Greens formed joint governments.

A change of coalition partner does not necessarily mean that the formation of a government will take longer.

In 2005 65 days passed when red-green under SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was replaced by the grand coalition of the Union and Social Democrats headed by Angela Merkel (CDU).

For the subsequent switch to black and yellow after the 2009 election, however, only 31 days were necessary.

Coalition negotiations in Germany: a record of 171 days

The coalitionists took significantly more time when they went back to the GroKo in 2013.

86 days were necessary here.

"I think it was good for us that we had these detailed deliberations," said Merkel at the time about the longest formation of a government in the history of the Federal Republic to date.

There was a lonely record after the election in September 2017. The reason was the failure of the negotiations on the initially sought-after Jamaica coalition of the Union, Greens and FDP, which Liberal leader Christian Lindner commented with the now legendary sentence: “It's better not to govern than to govern wrongly. "

After that, against much opposition, the grand coalition of the Union and the SPD was reissued.

After successful explorations, the coalition agreement was signed at the beginning of February after less than twelve days of negotiations.

This was followed, however, by the SPD's member survey, the result of which was only available weeks later.

The new government was only in office in mid-March 2018 - 171 days after the federal election.

(AFP / frs)

Source: merkur

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