Berlin: The Left, the Greens and the SPD in Berlin want to hold coalition talks

The three Berlin parties reached an agreement in the exploratory talks after the House of Representatives election. Now they want to negotiate a red-green-red coalition.

Berlin. The Left, the Greens and the SPD want to provide information about the status of their exploratory talks in Berlin. All three parties invited people to a joint press statement “at the end of the explorations” at the Haus der Statistics in Berlin-Mitte at 5 p.m. According to information from party circles from the German Press Agency, information about the exploratory paper and further steps will be provided there.

Before coalition negotiations can start, party committees must give the green light. The Greens have called a small party conference this Monday. In the case of the SPD, the state executive board is likely to decide on the basis of the exploratory paper; a date was not initially given.

Due to the two-week autumn break in Berlin, the Left has only scheduled a party conference for October 31st, which will decide on the start of coalition negotiations. If all three parties agree, these could start at the beginning of November.

In the election on September 20th, the Left was the strongest force with 25.7 percent. They are followed by the CDU (18.8 percent), AfD (16.3 percent), the Greens (14.3 percent) and - with their historically worst result - the SPD (12.1 percent). The previously ruling CDU/SPD coalition has lost its majority.