How will Germany’s Friedrich Merz build his coalition government?
The first of the four so-called Grand Coalitions, which was led by CDU leader Kurt Georg Kiesinger, weighed 90 per cent in the Bundestag in 1966. Angela Merkel’s first of three governments with the SPD in 2005 represented a 73 per cent majority and her fourth, in 2018, relied on 56 per cent of the seats.
Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz the hard work begins, writes Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker.
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