German Coalition Talks Could Take Months After Split Vote: Guide
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With German elections failing to produce a clear winner, the two major parties -- Finance Minister Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats and the conservative CDU/CSU bloc under Armin Laschet -- are both plotting their next moves to secure the chancellery.
The splintered political landscape means that they’ll need the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats to form a majority. And that’s where it gets complicated.