Green light for the Grand coalition, and therefore for the fourth government Merkel. Members of the SPD, the social democratic party, expressed themselves in favor of a third re-edition of the alliance with the CDU/CSU with 66%. A result was expected on the wire, but the answer was clear. As anticipated yesterday by the provisional president of the party, Olaf Scholz, participation was “high”.
The counting of votes took place throughout the night at the Berlin headquarters of the SPD, in the Willy-Brandt-Haus, thanks to 120 volunteers and a special commission that checked the hundreds of thousands of letters that arrived by Friday at midnight; the vote was certified by a notary.
"I congratulate the SPD for this clear result, and I am delighted with a new collaboration for the well-being of our country" tweeted the CDU, in the name of the chancellor. Now Angela Merkel can form her fourth executive - the third of the Grosse Koalition - and both the swearing in and the vote in the Bundestag are expected for the week of mid-March. Almost six months after the September 24 vote, Germany will once again have a government. In a moment of enormous international uncertainty, not a detail, especially in the light of the ambitious European reforms announced several times together with Emmanuel Macron.
