As SPD members gather to discuss their demands for keeping the coalition afloat, here's a look at four possible scenarios for the months ahead. 'GroKo' clings onIncoming SPD leaders Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken are critical of Merkel's grand right-left coalition, known as "GroKo" to Germans. Instead, they want to tweak the hard-fought coalition agreement struck with Merkel's centre-right CDU and its Bavarian CSU sister party after 2017's inconclusive general elections. The other two coalition parties have ruled out renegotiating the coalition accord. Attention would then shift to President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who would embark on complex negotiations to try to cobble together another coalition.

Source: The Local December 05, 2019 08:37 UTC