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Green top candidate Mona Neubaur
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After initial talks with the CDU on the possibility of forming a government, the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia also accepted the SPD's invitation to a meeting.
Representatives of both parties will meet in a Düsseldorf hotel on Friday.
The program therefore includes an "assessment of the current political situation in North Rhine-Westphalia".
With the same words, the CDU and the Greens announced their meeting on Wednesday.
Five-strong delegations from both sides take part in the exchange, led by state party leaders Thomas Kutschaty (SPD) and Mona Neubaur (Greens).
At the beginning of the week, all parties represented in the state parliament, with the exception of the AfD, announced that they wanted to hold talks with each other.
There was explicitly no mention of soundings.
In order to form a government, the SPD and the Greens would need the FDP as a coalition partner.
Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst's CDU got 35.7 percent of the vote in the state elections.
The Greens came in third with 18.2 percent.
The SPD achieved its historically weakest result in North Rhine-Westphalia with 26.7 percent.
A black-green coalition or a traffic light government made up of SPD, FDP and Greens would now be conceivable.
The third option, a grand coalition of SPD and CDU, has not yet been discussed.
The CDU and the Greens met for the first time on Wednesday.
The interview was rated as pleasant, open and honest by the top candidates Wüst and Neubaur.
Despite invitations from the CDU and SPD, the Free Democrats do not want to go into formal exploratory talks at the moment.
FDP top candidate Joachim Stamp firmly believes that the first black-green alliance will come about in North Rhine-Westphalia and sees these two parties as having a say in forming a government.
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