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No deal on German 'Grand Coalition' after 20 hours of talks
2018-01-12
If a new round of elections must be held, how would Germans vote, given recent events?
[DW] The three parties have been discussing the outlines for formal coalition talks since Sunday. Many were hoping for a breakthrough by Friday to avoid a conservative minority government or fresh parliamentary elections

Exploratory talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems ..
's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister-party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) have still not ended with an agreement to start formal coalition negotiations.

Party leaders had made progress on some issues, but were still wrangling over taxes, financial policy, immigration and health care more than 20 hours since talks began Thursday morning, according to the DPA news agency.
Several negotiators said talks could last until dawn and did not rule out a decision to adjourn discussions.

Merkel had said Thursday the talks would be "tough," but that she hoped the parties would conclude the preliminary round by Friday.

Negotiators are set to inform their party executives about progress made during the night on Friday morning..
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  If Merkill's still in charge then Germany has lost.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-01-12 19:11  

#3  Looks like a deal has been reached now
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-01-12 17:17  

#2  One man one vote....until you get it right...then stop.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-01-12 08:40  

#1  If a new round of elections must be held, how would Germans vote, given recent events?


I suspect the answer is in the very first paragraph:

Many were hoping for a breakthrough by Friday to avoid a conservative minority government or fresh parliamentary elections

I think the CDU/CSU/SPD all know exactly how the German people would vote, and it would be a Trump-level earthquake there. With that in mind, they may well opt for the new election, and keep holding elections until they win.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-01-12 05:47  

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