A New Old Big Government Coalition in Germany

... absolute majority in the Parliament they lacked just a few seats (however, even if they had these seats, their government wouldn't get a reliable and guaranteed parliamentary support to carry out the required reforms), LDP did not pass to the Bundestag and SPD and the Greens that received quite moderate 34.1 per cent, initially rejected any coalition with the CDU and CSU pointing out at a number of irreconcilable differences with their political opponents. For example, during the TV debates of 2 September ...