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For press inquiries, please contact us by email at [email protected].
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Chris Schaefer, Press Officer, at +1 202 642 7727 or [email protected]
Angelina Sutalo, Senior Press Officer, at +32 486 514 479 or [email protected].
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“ Linder can’t afford to be intransigent after he refused to enter into a coalition in 2017 – this is his last chance. And as far as the Greens are concerned, they feel that the climate emergency leaves them no choice except to govern as part of a coalition.”
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“ [Olaf Scholz] comes across as calm, measured, steady. As a moderate, Scholz is an outlier within his party. The SPD leadership are mostly leftist leaning and initially didn't support him. So we don't know yet who he will gather around him and who will influence his leadership style.”
“ "[Angela Merkel] has left a very fragmented political landscape in Germany, so it looks like it's going to take three parties to form a majority for the next government. So the small parties, the Greens and the FDP, are sort of banding together to call the shots for the next government.”
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“ There is a structural shift going on in German politics. A multidimensional chess game has opened.”
“ This is a generational change after 16 years of one person in power, I think for that reason alone, Germans are very unsure about who would be the proper successor to Angela Merkel.”
“ This so-called 'traffic light' coalition would be the first three-party alliance in the country’s history, and already has 'some conflict lines written in the sand.'”
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