Currently, leader of the German Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer considers that the new government may be put on oath in the first half of March, Sputnik News reports.
"We must begin negotiations on the coalition immediately after the SPD congress. They can end in the first days of February. Then the decision of the members of the SPD will follow. The new government can be sworn in the first half of March, long before Easter," Seehofer told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.