Chancellor Angela Merkel has failed to forge a coalition between her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), the pro-business FDP and the Green party, following federal elections at the end of September.
Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will meet with party leaders to urge them to rethink their positions and try again to form a government. The centre-left Social Democrats — Merkel’s partners in the outgoing government — say they will not budge from their refusal to enter a new Merkel administration. If that stands, a minority government or new elections are the only options.
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