Black-red government formation: Klingbeil secures Merz SPD votes at chancellor election

If it goes according to SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil, Friedrich Merz can count on all the votes from the SPD faction in the chancellor election. That would be 120 votes.

The deputy chancellor-designate Lars Klingbeil (SPD) does not expect deviants in his party in the election of CDU head Friedrich Merz as Chancellor. The result of the vote of the party base on the coalition agreement is "a clear vote for every member of parliament", said Klingbeil of the "Bild am Sonntag". This now also includes electing Merz as Chancellor on Tuesday "in the first round of elections"."I have no indication that anyone in the poli…

The SPD has accepted the black and red coalition agreement after a vote of its members. There is now nothing in the way of the formation of the government. At the beginning of the week, the "small CDU party congress" has already cleared the way for a black and red coalition, and the SPD members have now also approved the coalition agreement. With a turnout of 56 percent of the 358,000 SPD members, 86.4 percent of the vote could be obtained. Unli…