Germany took a big step towards forming a new government when the country’s Social Democrats voted in favour of formal coalition talks that could give Angela Merkel a fourth term in office and break a four-month political deadlock.
In a tighter result than party officials had predicted, 362 of 642 delegates at an extraordinary SPD conference in Bonn on Sunday backed opening negotiations with Ms Merkel’s conservative bloc.
Martin Schulz, SPD leader, called on his party to give its support to the talks so that a new government could usher in “historic political change [and] a new dawn for Europe”.
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