Conservative leader Merz only needs Social Democrats to form coalition in Germany

Conservative leader Merz only needs Social Democrats to form coalition in Germany

Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats, winners of the German general election, will be able to form a coalition government with only the Social Democrats as junior partners, without needing to include the Greens to obtain a majority of seats. The final vote has left the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance out of the Bundestag by a few hundredths of a percentage point. If this new left-wing populist party had made it into the chamber, it would have complicated the arithmetic for putting together majorities and would have forced Merz, against his will, to negotiate a three-party coalition to become chancellor.

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