What about the traffic light coalition?
The SPD, Greens and FDP are negotiating - and want to speak publicly on Tuesday afternoon.
Berlin - The traffic light parties come out of cover again on Tuesday: At 2 p.m., General Secretaries Lars Klingbeil (SPD) and Volker Wissing (FDP) and their Green counterpart Michael Kellner in Berlin want to comment on the current status of the coalition negotiations.
Traffic light coalition: statement planned - parties were differently optimistic on Tuesday morning
Negotiations will take place beforehand: In the morning, the 21 top traffic light negotiators met for further discussions. They had already sat together for nine hours on Monday to pour the results of the 22 working groups into a coalition paper. Possibly there are still some rifts to be bridged - that was recently apparently at least behind the scenes from the ranks of the FDP working group participants.
Officially, the SPD, Greens and FDP are still on course.
Although different nuances could be heard in the statements of the partners: The mood of the negotiators was "result-oriented", said FDP parliamentary group manager Marco Buschmann on Tuesday morning.
FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki also made it clear that there are always points of contention.
Green leader Annalena Baerbock was more positive: “The situation is always good.” The outgoing SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans also spoke of a good atmosphere.
Traffic light negotiations are ongoing: Corona keeps the SPD, Greens and FDP on their toes - is the Chancellor's schedule keeping?
SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz was already very satisfied on Monday evening.
"Everything is going very, very well and constructively," he said at an event for the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
.
It was possible to untie a number of knots in such a way that things could go on "properly".
The traffic light parties are already struggling very specifically with the handling of the worsening corona crisis.
On Monday there was brief but lasting confusion about a mandatory vaccination announcement by the Greens.
On Thursday, energy is required: the Bundestag is to pass a new, tightened draft law on traffic lights.
There is also a corona summit with the prime ministers.
According to the previous plan, negotiations on a coalition agreement should be concluded this month.
In the St. Nicholas week from December 6th, Scholz is to be elected Chancellor and his government to be sworn in in the Bundestag.
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fn / dpa
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