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Three German parties have announced that they aim to open formal coalition talks, moving a big step closer to a new government that would send outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc into opposition.

A leader of the Greens say the multiparty talks on forming a new German government have “a long way to go” and will have to bridge significant policy differences.

The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks to bridge their differences and declared that they got off to a good start.

The center-left Social Democrats have won the biggest share of the vote in Germany’s national election, beating outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union bloc in a closely fought race.

Climate change is among the top concerns for Germans going into this year’s national election that will determine who replaces Angela Merkel as chancellor.

Germany’s center-right bloc is pledging to boost the economy without raising taxes and make the European Union nation “climate neutral” by 2045 while preserving industrial jobs.

A German software developer who made a fortune from bitcoin has given the environmentalist Green Party one of the biggest political donations in the country’s history.

Germany’s environmentalist Greens have chosen co-leader Annalena Baerbock to make the party’s first bid for the chancellery in the country’s September election.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's party CDU is considering how to respond to historically bad state election results six months before a national vote that will determine who succeeds Germany's long-time leader. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)BERLIN – Two German state election defeats have jolted Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc, shining a spotlight on chances of it being ejected from the government in September's national vote. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union was handily defeated Sunday by two popular state governors: the Green party’s Winfried Kretschmann in Baden-Wuerttemberg and the center-left Social Democrats’ Malu Dreyer in Rhineland-Palatinate. So far, the Union bloc of Merkel's CDU and Bavaria's Christian Social Union leads polls by a distance from the Greens and Social Democrats, despite softening support. The elections gave some comfort to the Social Democrats, currently the junior partners in Merkel's government, who have been struggling with dismal federal poll ratings.

A flag of Germany's Christian Democratic Union party, CDU, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, waves in the wind on top of the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, March 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party suffered clear defeats in two German state elections on Sunday at the hands of popular governors from parties further to the left, according to projections. Sunday’s votes for new state legislatures in the southwestern states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate kicked off an electoral marathon which features another four state ballots and the Sept. 26 national election. AdThe Greens' success bolstered their confidence for the national election campaign, in which the traditionally left-leaning party is expected to make its first bid for the chancellery. It still leads national polls by a distance from the Greens and Social Democrats — the latter the junior partner in Merkel's coalition government — but this year has started badly.

(AP Photo/Michael Probst)BERLIN – Two German states choose new legislatures on Sunday, the first major political test of a year in which a national election will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel. It’s an unpromising moment for the new leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, Armin Laschet, to face his first big political test. In the last election five years ago, the Greens overtook the CDU to become the strongest party in the state. If Sunday's elections go badly for the CDU, that will be “tailwind” for Soeder, said Faas, the political science professor. AdNational polls show that the Greens' support has roughly doubled since the last German election, while that of Scholz's Social Democrats — traditionally Germany's biggest center-left party and now the junior partner in Merkel's national government — has dwindled.