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Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports that the expected new coalition between the conservative CDU/CSU union and the Social Democratic party will no longer be known as a "grand coalition", or GroKo, as it was known during the Angela Merkel years.
Fredrich Merz, the leader of the CDU/CSU that won the February 23 parliamentary elections in Germany, is leading negotiations to form a new government. This government will most likely be a coalition with Scholz's Social Democrats, who are ranked third in these elections.
"I can't say anything about the content of the talks today, because it's too early for that. But I assume we will intensify them in the coming days," Merz said, referring to the talks.
Merz will lead the talks together with CSU leader Markus Söder. He stressed that the new government will face "urgent" issues and that is why he thought it was important to "enter into talks quickly."
He once again reiterated his three priorities – foreign and security policy, migration, and the economy – and his aim to form a government by Easter, i.e. on April 20.
German weekly Der Spiegel reported that Merz and Scholz talked for about 90 minutes, perhaps mainly about the transition phase between the current and future governments.
Meanwhile, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the German news agency, reports that the expected new coalition between the conservative CDU/CSU union and the Social Democratic party will no longer be known as a "grand coalition", or GroKo, as it was known during the Angela Merkel years.
This is due to the fact that the two are no longer the largest parties in the new Bundestag – as the AfD, a far-right party, ranks second, ahead of the SPD, after Sunday's elections.
Based on a somewhat unusual tradition of naming coalitions by referring to the flags of other countries, the first suggestions were to call it the "Albanian coalition" or the "Angolan coalition" (black and red are the colors of the two parties, although in both cases there are some additional elements in their flags).
And among the ideas thrown around about what the government coalition in Germany could be called, the idea that it could be "Coalition Zero" was also thrown around.
As fun as it may be, finding an informal name for the new coalition will probably be less important than the problems it will face and need to solve.
With the parliamentary party groups meeting for the first time since the elections, the countdown has begun. Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has said he would like to have his government in place before Easter. / Pamphlet/
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