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Germany’s centre-left Social Democratic Party and two smaller parties said on Thursday they would deepen their talks next week on forming a new government, as the leader of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc indicated his willingness to step aside following an election defeat.
The general secretary of the pro-business Free Democrats, Volker Wissing, said that a first round of talks between his party, the Social Democrats and the environmentalist Greens had gone “very well”.
His Green party counterpart Michael Kellner told reporters it had been a “good day” for the discussions.
“I had the feeling in the talks that we can create something together,” Lars Klingbeil, the Social Democrats’ general secretary, said.
None of the three divulged details of their negotiations, which if successful would push Merkel’s Union bloc into opposition after her 16 years of leading Europe’s biggest economy. The bloc consists of the chancellor’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union and the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union.
The head of the Christian Democrats, North Rhine-Westphalia state governor Armin Laschet, said on Thursday that he would propose calling a party conference in the coming weeks to determine its future leadership.
Laschet, who was the Union bloc’s candidate for chancellor, didn’t say whether he would run to keep his party leadership post but spoke of the need to have “new personalities to make a fresh start”.
His campaign to succeed Merkel as chancellor failed to win over voters, and the bloc took 24.1 per cent of the vote on September 26, its worst-ever result, coming in second behind the Social Democrats.
The 60-year-old Laschet has already said he will not continue as governor of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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