German Chancellor Angela
Merkel's conservatives have agreed to enter a coalition with the
centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), officials say.
The Tuesday Nov 26,2013 late-night decision follows lengthy discussions by
leaders of the SPD with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the
allied CSU
Angela Merkel's
Christian Democrats, their Bavarian allies the CSU and the Social
Democrats (SPD) agreed the deal after marathon talks lasting 17 hours
and were due to formally present it to a meeting of some 75 delegates
from all three parties
The final coalition deal will now go to a ballot of SPD members to be signed off.Angela Merkel is expected to present the agreement alongside CSU leader Horst Seehofer and the SPD's Sigmar Gabriel on Nov 27,2013 Wednesday morning.
German Christian Democrats Union (CDU) leader Angela Merkel
German Social Democrats (SPD) leader Sigmar Gabriel
Note
German Federal Election Sep 22, 2013 - Results
CDU/CSU -41.5%
SPD -25.7%
Greens -8.4%
FDP -4.8%
Linke -8.6%
AfD -4.7%
Others -6.3%
| Parties | Constituency | Party list | Total seats | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | Seats | +/− | % | ||||
| CDU | 16,225,769 | 37.2 | +5.2 | 190 | +17 | 14,913,921 | 34.1 | +6.9 | 65 | +44 | 255 | +61 | 40.5 | |||
| SPD | 12,835,933 | 29.4 | +1.5 | 59 | -5 | 11,247,283 | 25.7 | +2.7 | 133 | +51 | 192 | +46 | 30.5 | |||
| Left(Linke) | 3,583,050 | 8.2 | -2.9 | 4 | -12 | 3,752,577 | 8.6 | -3.3 | 60 | ±0 | 64 | -12 | 10.2 | |||
| Greens | 3,177,269 | 7.3 | -1.9 | 1 | ±0 | 3,690,314 | 8.4 | -2.3 | 62 | -5 | 63 | -5 | 10.0 | |||
| CSU | 3,543,733 | 8.1 | +0.7 | 45 | ±0 | 3,243,335 | 7.4 | +0.9 | 11 | +11 | 56 | +11 | 8.9 | |||
| FDP | 1,028,322 | 2.4 | -7.1 | 0 | ±0 | 2,082,305 | 4.8 | -9.8 | 0 | -93 | 0 | -93 | 0 | |||
| AfD | 809,817 | 1.9 | +1.9 | 0 | ±0 | 2,052,372 | 4.7 | +4.7 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Pirate Party (PIRATEN) | 962,946 | 2.2 | +2.1 | 0 | ±0 | 958,507 | 2.2 | +0.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| National Democratic Party (NPD) | 634,842 | 1.5 | −0.3 | 0 | ±0 | 560,660 | 1.3 | −0.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Human Environment Animal Welfare | 4,415 | 0.0 | +0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 140,251 | 0.3 | -0.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| The Republicans (REP) | 27,279 | 0.1 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 91,660 | 0.2 | −0.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Ecological Democratic Party (ödp) | 128,158 | 0.3 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 127,085 | 0.3 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Family Party (FAMILIE) | 4,476 | 0.0 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 7,451 | 0.0 | −0.3 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Alliance 21/RRP | 5,335 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 0 | ±0 | 8,851 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Pensioners' Party (RENTNER) | 919 | 0.0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 25,190 | 0.1 | -0.1 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Bavaria Party (BP) | 28,336 | 0.1 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 57,285 | 0.1 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Party of Bible-abiding Christians (PBC) | 2,070 | 0.0 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 18,529 | 0.0 | −0.1 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo) | 18,039 | 0.0 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 13,131 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| The Violets – for Spiritual Politics (DIE VIOLETTEN) | 2,500 | 0.0 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 8,248 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Marxist Leninist Party (MLPD) | 12,986 | 0.0 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 25,336 | 0.1 | ±0.0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Alliance for Germany (Volksabstimmung) | 1,748 | 0.0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 28,667 | 0.1 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Social Equality Party (PSG) | – | – | – | – | – | 4,840 | 0.0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Electoral groups and independents | 131,873 | 0.3 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 143,462 | 0.3 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | ±0 | 0 | |||
| Total valid | 43,601,224 | 98.4 | +0.2 | 299 | ±0 | 43,702,474 | 98.7 | +0.1 | 331 | +8 | 630 | +8 | ±0 | |||
| Invalid ballots | 688,428 | 1.6 | -0.1 | 587,178 | 1.3 | -0.1 | ||||||||||
| Total (turnout: 71.5%) | 44,289,652 | 100.0 | 44,289,652 | 100.0 | ||||||||||||
The Christian Democratic Union(CDU)and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria(CSU) got their best result since the 1990 election and fell just 5 seats short of an outright majority, something that has only been accomplished once, in 1957
The CDU/CSU bloc took about 41.5% of the vote - but FDP won only 4.8% and failed to make it to the parliament.The FDP was beaten by the Green Party (8.4%) and the former communist Left Party (8.6%). It almost finished behind the new Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD), which advocates withdrawal from the euro currency and took 4.7%, just short of the parliamentary threshold.
As a result, the CDU/CSU will have to turn to the main opposition party Social Democrats(SPD) to form a grand coalition as these parties have done in the past
The SPD previously formed a grand coalition with the CDU/CSU in 2005-2009.
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