New coalition government in Germany: CDU and SPD have reached an agreement.

Following the federal elections in February in Germany, the coalition talks that began pointed towards a possible 'Grand Coalition' (GroKo) between the CDU and SPD as the most likely scenario.

After weeks of negotiations, conservative and center-left parties in Germany reached an agreement to form a new government. This opened the way for new leadership in Europe's largest economy after months of political crisis. Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is expected to become Germany's next chancellor, succeeding Olaf Scholz, who stepped down as part of the agreement. The parties involved in the coalition announced that they would hold a press conference at 16:00 TSİ regarding the agreement. Merz's two-party Union bloc emerged as the strongest party in Germany's federal elections in February. In the federal elections, CDU leader Merz achieved a significant victory by receiving 28% of the votes. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party doubled its vote share compared to the 2021 elections, garnering 20% of the votes. This represents the best result for a far-right party in Germany since World War II. Merz turned to the Social Democrats, Scholz's center-left party, to form a coalition with a parliamentary majority. Under Olaf Scholz's leadership, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) received only 16% of the votes in the federal elections, marking its worst result in history. This was the lowest vote share the party had achieved since 1887. Our journalists are currently working on this report.