German political parties will hold exploratory talks from Sunday as they jostle to form the next government after a close election, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) battling Angela Merkel's conservatives for the chancellery.
The SPD and its candidate Olaf Scholz narrowly won last week's vote on 25.7 percent, with Merkel's CDU-CSU alliance plunging to an all-time low of 24.1 percent as she prepares to leave the stage after 16 years in power.
First up in what Der Spiegel magazine has described as the"poker game for power" is the SPD, which will huddle with the FDP on Sunday afternoon and the Greens in the evening.- 'Historic defeat' - Some 76 percent said they thought Scholz should be the next German chancellor, with just 13 percent backing Laschet.
But the conservatives are not giving up, with Markus Blume, general secretary of the CSU, insisting on Friday that"Jamaica has a chance". With the SPD and the conservatives scrambling for the affections of the Greens and the FDP, the smaller parties find themselves in an outsize position of power as potential kingmakers.
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