Germany’s Social Democrats were launching talks to form a new coalition government on Monday after scoring a narrow election victory over outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling conservative party.
The centre-left SPD won 25.7 per cent of the vote across the 299 constituencies, compared with 24.1 per cent for Mrs Merkel’s CDU/CSU bloc.
Led by Olaf Scholz, the SPD is likely to seek an alliance with potential “kingmakers” the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats, which scored 14.8 per cent and 11.5 per cent respectively.
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