German FDP Party Slams Merkel’s Bloc Over Coalition Talks Leak
- Apparent content from meeting with CDU/CSU detailed in press
- Tensions could complicate efforts to form a new government
FDP Leader Christian Lindner arrives for talks between the FDP and the CDU/CSU in Berlin on Oct. 3.
Photographer: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
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Germany’s Free Democrats criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives after details of confidential talks were leaked to the press, heightening tensions that could complicate the bloc’s efforts to form a governing alliance.
After exploratory discussions between the FDP and Merkel’s CDU/CSU on Sunday, comments from the closed-door talks made it into the media. That prompted Johannes Vogel, a deputy FDP chairman, to complain on Twitter.