The social democrats of the SPD, the Greens and the Liberals of the FDP will unveil Wednesday, November 24 their government agreement to form the coalition which will succeed in power in Germany to the conservatives of Angela Merkel.
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These parties, which have been negotiating for several weeks an unprecedented three-party coalition, will present their government “
contract
” on Wednesday at 2 p.m. GMT in Berlin, they announced in a press release, paving the way for the election to the post of chancellor of the social -Democrat Olaf Scholz, probably in early December. After the legislative elections of September 26 won by the SPD, the coalition agreement on a government program was tied at the end of negotiations carried out briskly by some twenty thematic groups.
Its rapid conclusion should reassure other European countries, worried following the legislative elections to see Germany without a real captain on board when the Covid-19 pandemic resumes.
The result of a compromise, this coalition contract will define all the economic, environmental and societal reforms that the next government, whose composition should be announced shortly, will implement.
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The key ministries of the future government of Olaf Scholz should be attributed to the president of the FDP, Christian Lindner, who could inherit the strategic finance portfolio, and to the co-leaders of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock, possible first woman to head German diplomacy, and Robert Habeck, to whom an important climate ministry could return.
