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DPA
Wed, April 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM UTC
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An advertising card with the inscription "The coalition agreement is here" can be seen at the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) party headquarters, the Willy Brandt House, in front of the Willy Brandt statue. SPD has approved a coalition agreement with Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc in a members' ballot, paving the way for the new German government to take office next week. Kay Nietfeld/dpa
Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has approved a coalition agreement with Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc in a members' ballot, paving the way for the new German government to take office next week, sources told dpa on Wednesday.
Party insiders said 84.6% of members backed the agreement in a vote that took place over two weeks and ended on Tuesday.
The centre-left SPD is to become the junior party in the incoming administration alongside chancellor-in-waiting Merz's Christian Democratic Union and its sister party, the Christian Social Union - both of which have already rubber-stamped the coalition deal.
Merz is set to be elected chancellor on May 6 in a session of the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, just over two months since his centre-right bloc won February's federal election.
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