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9/29/05

Deutsche Welle: German elections: CDU says coalition with SPD most likely

Deutsche Welle

German elections: CDU says coalition with SPD most likely

The leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democrats, Angela Merkel, has said that a grand coalition between her party and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's ruling Social Democrats is more likely than any other arrangement. Merkel made her comments after a meeting with leading members of the liberal Free Democrats, the CDU's preferred coalition partner. The two parties had hoped to form a government but failed to win a majority in the general election two weeks ago. The Social Democrats and the CDU held talks on Wednesday but are still no closer to solving the issue of who would be chancellor in a grand coalition.

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