Will Germany's lackluster coalition government survive?
The SPD, Greens and FDP are now more divided than united, and there won't be enough money to bridge the differences in 2024. Will the government stay the course? Resentments have been simmering in the neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) for months now. The smallest coalition partner in Germany's center-left federal government has suffered one defeat after another in state and local elections in 2022 and 2023. Local politicians have said the unhappy partnership in Berlin is to blame . Opinion polls indicate that only one in five citizens is still satisfied with the work of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and the FDP in the federal government. There are many in the FDP who only see one way out: The party must exit the coalition government, which they think is holding it back. A survey of party members, which concluded on January 1, 2024, was supposed to clear the way for this. However, 52% of FDP party members who voted opted to remain in ...