“Both sides have to make concessions,“ said Manuela Schwesig of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD as the exploratory talks began in Berlin.
Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance won Sunday’s elections with 28.6 percent of the vote, while the SPD scored a historic low of 16.4 percent.
However, both sides will have to resolve key differences on thorny issues from immigration to how to balance a tight budget.
“We have to learn from this failed government,“ Schwesig said. “Constant conflict harms not only those involved, but also democracy.”
Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, spelling long stretches of political paralysis before a new chancellor takes charge.
“The world isn’t waiting for us,“ Merz said after Sunday’s election win.
That leaves the SPD as his only politically feasible option to form a government.
It would be the fourth time since the turn of the millennium and the fifth time in Germany’s post-war history that the parties have governed together in a so-called grand coalition -- always under the leadership of the CDU/CSU.
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