Green Party parliamentary group leader āstill ready for talksā on government participation
The Green Party is āstill ready for talksā on becoming part of a possible government coalition in Germany, the partyās parliamentary group co-leader Katrin Gƶring-Eckardt has said in an interview with Welt Online. She said that her party would be ready for talks on forming a minority government with Angela Merkelās conservative CDU/CSU alliance as well as for a renewal of talks on a so-called Jamaica coalition with the conservatives and the pro-business FDP, which dropped out of exploratory consultations in late November. āGermany needs an ecologic and future-oriented governmentā, Gƶring-Eckardt said, arguing that a possible renewal of the coalition between the conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) would mean a āstandstillā for German politics. However, she added that a minority government with the conservatives would only work for the Greens if it was possible to secure parliamentary majorities for important policy proposals, āsuch as the coal exitā.
Find the interview in German (behind paywall).
See Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ęās Coalition Watch for updates on Germanyās attempts to form a government.