Germany's SPD Members Approve Coalition With Angela Merkel’s Conservatives
Germany's chancellor will get a fourth term after her junior partners, the SPD, voted for a coalition deal. The new government could be in place in less than two weeks' time, ending months of uncertainty, DW reports.
More than five months after Germans went to polls in the September 24 national election, Germany will be getting a new government. The final hurdle was cleared when the Social Democratic Party (SPD) rank-and-file sanctioned the coalition deal party leaders had negotiated with Angela Merkel's conservatives.
Sixty-six percent of party members who voted supported a continuation of the grand coalition, while 34 percent opposed it.
The results of a mail-in ballot among more than 450,000 SPD members were announced at party headquarters in Berlin on Sunday morning.
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