La Spd, the Verdi and Liberals have reached a preliminary agreement to try to form a government in Germany. He announced it Olaf Scholz, Social Democrat leader and number one chancellor candidate, after days of closed-door negotiations following early October elections.
It then opens a new phase of the negotiation, in which Scholz will carry out "coalition talks" with the number one of the Greens and Liberals - Annalena Baerbock and Christian Lindner - to find the square on a common 12-page program and thus form a "traffic light majority".
From the European point of view, the document does not meet the requests of the Mediterranean countries, because it envisages do not modify the Stability Pact (currently suspended) and to continue the traditional German battle against debt.
Domestically, however, the draft agreement also contains the increase in the minimum wage at 12 euros an hour, creating a sort of “CBI", There closure of coal plants by 2030 (eight years earlier than previously planned) and the introduction of new taxes to reduce the increase in electricity and gas bills.
The liberals still got the promise that income taxes, corporate taxes and VAT they will not be raised and that the patrimonial promised by the Spd and Verdi will never see the light.
Finally, Scholz specified that among the main points of the future government program there will be the fight against child poverty, the increase of rent-fair houses and the stabilization of pensions.
If the negotiations, which will probably last until early December, are successful, Scholz's election as chancellor should be scheduled after December 16th. In this way, Angela Merkel would break Helmut Kohl's record and become the longest-serving chancellor of German history.
This would be a strategic move for the social democratic leader: by helping Merkel to become an icon, Scholz would the conservative wing of the Cdu is cornered, which after the electoral disaster is plotting in the shadows to regain the leadership of the Christian Democrats.
