Original title: foreign media: Germany's "traffic lights" group finalized the cabinet formation plan, and Scholz will be the new prime minister
Bloomberg news on November 24, according to a person familiar with the Berlin negotiations, after nearly two months of intense negotiations, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) finalized a cabinet formation agreement on Wednesday. Olaf Scholtz, the SPD candidate for prime minister, the current Deputy Prime Minister and finance minister, will be the new prime minister.
It is reported that the German Social Democratic Party said in an e-mail statement that the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. Central European time to put forward a plan to jointly form the next government. Because the representative colors of the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party are red, green and yellow respectively, they are called the "traffic light" combination.
According to previous CCTV news reports, German political sources said on November 20 local time that the cabinet formation negotiations between the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party have entered the final stage, and an agreement is expected to be reached as early as 22 or 23. As the new prime minister is about to take office, the countdown to the retirement of the current Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In the election of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) held in Germany in September, the Social Democratic Party won 25.7% of the votes, ranking first; Merkel's coalition party won 24.1%, ranking second; The Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party won 14.8% and 11.5% respectively, ranking third and fourth.