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Negotiations about a Jamaica coalition made up of the CDU, Greens and FDP dragged on for weeks after the 2017 federal election, until FDP leader Christian Lindner canceled them.

He would rather not govern than govern wrongly, said Lindner at the time - as a result, there was again a grand coalition of CDU and SPD in the federal government, which governs to this day.

After the federal election in 2021 in September, the FDP would apparently be ready to try a Jamaica coalition if the majority would be appropriate.

The reason: the departure of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"Jamaica would be better off today than it was in 2017 under Angela Merkel, who didn't want to approach us anywhere," said Alexander Graf Lambsdorff of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" (FAS).

"Easier possible than in 2017"

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According to Merkel, Jamaica would be “easier than it was in 2017”, the deputy FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki also emphasized to the FAS.

“As of today” Jamaica is the “only realistic option” for his party to participate in government.

From the FDP's point of view, “Jamaica” could mobilize more voters than the prospect of a black-green alliance.

The general secretary of the party in Lower Saxony, Konstantin Kuhle, argues that many people feared “that black-green would bring an axis shift to the left in Germany.

And these people understand: The FDP helps against this danger. "

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The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister and candidate for the CDU chairmanship, Armin Laschet, recently wanted a strong FDP in the federal government.

Laschet rules in Düsseldorf in a CDU-FDP alliance.

He would give the FDP "air to breathe - in contrast to Merkel, who always tried to make the FDP small," said Kuhle.