Inconclusive German Vote Could Mean Months of Coalition Talks

From bnnbloomberg.ca

With German elections failing to produce a clear winner, the two major parties -- Finance Minister Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats and the conservative CDU/CSU bloc under Armin Laschet -- are both plotting their next moves to secure the chancellery. The splintered political landscape means that they’ll need the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats to form a majority. And that’s where it gets complicated. The Greens have traditionally been more comfortable with Scholz’s SDP. While FDP leader Christian Lindner is on the record as saying he prefers a coalition with the conservatives. They are essentially in ... (full story)