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As of: 09/29/2021 5:46 p.m.
The parties line up for explorations. The Greens come in groups of ten, the SPD in six – and the FDP one way or the other. The schedule for the talks is also taking shape.
After a first surprising meeting between the FDP and the Greens, the parties agreed on dates for exploratory talks on the formation of a possible government. In the forthcoming formation of a government, only tripartite alliances are possible.
The current schedule
– At the Friday want Greens and FDP want to talk to each other again. It should “first substantive questions are deepened,” it says from the FDP.
– At the Saturday the Greens meet for a small party conference. The FDP in turn meets with the CDU and CSU.
– At the Sunday the Social Democrats want to talk to the FDP first, then to the Greens.
– For the next week the Union has invited the Greens for talks.
The teams
– The green want to go into talks about the formation of a government with a ten-person exploratory team. That emerges from a draft of the party leadership for a small party congress that is to take place this Saturday in Berlin.
In addition to the party chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck and the parliamentary group leaders in the Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter, the team will include the parliamentary group manager Britta Hasselmann, party manager Michael Kellner, the Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, Claudia Roth, the former Bundestag deputy parliamentarian, Claudia Roth Sven Giegold and the deputy party chairman Ricarda Lang belong.
A Green Paper for the Small Party Congress says that the explorations should lead to coalition talks “quickly and confidently”. The tough negotiations in 2017 about the formation of a coalition of the Union, the Greens and the FDP, which the Liberals ultimately broke, should not be repeated.
– The FDP sends six or ten members of its twelve-person presidium to the meeting, depending on how the SPD and the Union start the conversation.
– The SPD comes six with candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz, party leaders Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans, parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich, Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer and Secretary General Lars Klingbeil.
– To the team of union nothing is known yet.