China News Agency, Berlin, October 15 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The leaders of the German Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party jointly announced in Berlin on the 15th that the three parties have reached agreement on the ground-breaking dialogue held before and will start formal cabinet negotiations.
Schultz, the prime ministerial candidate of the Social Democratic Party with the highest vote rate in this general election, said on the same day that the current goal is to complete the cabinet formation negotiations and form a new federal government before Christmas this year.
The final vote count announced by the German Federal Election Commission on the same day showed that in the German general election held on September 26, the Social Democratic Party received 25.7% of the vote, the Coalition Party received 24.1%, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party received 14.8% and 11.5, respectively. %.
Since the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party have announced that they have entered the stage of cabinet formation negotiations, analysis believes that the coalition party, which has been in power for four consecutive terms, will have a greater probability of acting as the opposition party in the next German Bundestag.
On the same day, the party chairmen and prime minister candidates of the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party jointly attended a press conference in Berlin and announced that they had reached an agreement on formal entry into the cabinet formation negotiations and will send the documents formed by the previous phase of the dialogue with each other. Deliberated by the Bureau.
Scholtz said on the same day that the three parties hope to complete the cabinet formation negotiations before Christmas and form a new federal government.
However, he also pointed out that although the dialogue stage is more harmonious, the formal negotiation of cabinet formation is by no means a formality, but must be prepared to face differences with a high degree of seriousness.
According to German media reports, the preliminary documents reached by the three parties show that the next German government will strive to build a more modern country and achieve breakthroughs in the field of digitalization.
In addition, addressing climate change and emphasizing the fairness and ecology of the market economy are also the focus of the above-mentioned documents.
It is worth mentioning that after the last German election in 2017, the coalition party with the highest vote rate at that time sought to form a cabinet with the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party. However, in the end, the latter two were too far apart and the Liberal Democratic Party withdrew from the negotiations to no avail.
After four years, whether the Social Democratic Party can reconcile the differences between the three parties on the basic program and successfully form the first three-party coalition government at the German federal level is continuing to receive attention from the outside world.
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