CNN
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Germany’s two major centrist parties have reached a coalition deal, the culmination of weeks of negotiations after the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as winner in February’s federal election.
The deal is set to be presented by party leaders from the CDU and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in Berlin on Wednesday afternoon, the CDU/CSU parliamentary press office told CNN.
Designated chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU party emerged victorious in February’s vote but failed to win a majority, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surging into second place and almost doubling its supporter base.
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