BERLIN (Reuters) – There is a strong will to reach a coalition agreement on Tuesday in the talks between Germany’s conservatives – winners of the election six weeks ago – and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), the Bild newspaper reported citing unnamed sources.
Two sources told Reuters on Tuesday that decisive talks could take place on Tuesday and a deal could be reached on Wednesday.
Merz’s Christian Democrats would head the new government with their Bavarian CSU allies and the SPD as junior partner.
Such a coalition would be the only two-way tie-up that excludes from power the second-placed Alternative for Germany, a far-right party with whom all other parties have pledged not to cooperate.
(Reporting by Andreas Rinke, Writing by Friederike Heine, Editing by Rachel More and Miranda Murray)
