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German coalition talks collapse after FDP pulls out─── 13:12 Tue, 21 Nov 2017
Angela Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that her efforts to form a three-way coalition failed after the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) withdrew from the talks.
Merkel's centre-right Christian Democratic political alliance (CDU/CSU) secured 33% of the general election that took place in September, losing about 9% of the votes compared to the last election in 2013 and failing to form a single-party government.
The chancellor was holding talks with the FDP, which secured 10.7% of the votes in September, and the Greens, which scored 8.4% in the vote, to form a coalition government.
