One of Germany’s leading conservatives has backed the prospect of a fresh “grand coalition” to break the post-election deadlock ahead of negotiations in which Angela Merkel will seek to extend her 12-year rule.
Horst Seehofer, head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Ms Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that a grand coalition of the centre-left and centre-right was “the best option for Germany”.
With the uncertainty in Berlin hanging over Europe as it grapples with Brexit and attempts to reform the eurozone, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) last week abandoned their refusal to consider recreating the grand coalition that governed Germany for the past four years.
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