“There will be no coalition deal with us without a clause ensuring marriage for all,” the Green Party manifesto states. The Green party is currently polling at around seven percent, and is projected to become the fifth largest party in the Bundestag. SPD leader Martin Schulz has talked up the possibility of a "red-red-green" coalition, involving the SPD, the Green Party and Die Linke (the Left Party). At their party conference, the Green party refused to rule out going into a coalition with the CDU and its more conservative Bavarian sister party, the CSU. Most of Germany’s border states have also legalized gay marriage, such as the Netherlands which passed same-sex marriage legislation roughly 15 years ago, making it the first country in the world to do so.

Source: The Local June 19, 2017 09:45 UTC