The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) alliance is ready to begin negotiations with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) on the formation of a new German federal government, the head of the CDU and the alliance's leader, acting Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin, additing that she agrees with the German liberals' leader Christian Lindner's statements that the formation of the Jamaica coalition in Germany is impossible.
"We are ready to launch negotiations with the SPD," Merkel said, adding that this time, the alliance intends to act "decisively, aiming at the success of negotiations."
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For about four weeks marathon talks to form a new German government within the so called 'Jamaica coalition' are being hold. The country's leadership has now to choose between new elections to the Bundestag and further attempts to form a coalition. On November, 20 the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) announced its withdrawal from the coalition talks with the union of the CDU/CSU and the Greens (prospective 'Jamaica coalition'). However, disagreements over such issues as migration and climate change have prevented parties from reaching a deal. Now Germany has been bogged down in political crisis: eigher new elections to the Bundestag have to be appointed or further attempts to form a coalition.
Current poltiical crisis is the result of the parliamentary elections on September 24, when both the CDU/CSU and the SPD suffered their worst election results since the 1940s, with 33 percent of votes and secured 246 seats in the parliament for CDU/CSU, SPD with 20.5% of votes and 12.6% for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The FDP came fourth with 10.7 percent of votes and 80 seats. The Greens came sixth, gaining 8.9 percent of votes and 67 seats.
