03:00Representatives from the Greens Anton Hofreiter, Katrin Goering-Eckardt and party co-leader Robert Habeck addressed possible coalition formations in Berlin on Tuesday, two days after the general election.
"Of course we will talk with all democratic parties but it is more likely to have a 'traffic light coalition' in the end,'' Hofreiter noted, referring to a coalition between the market-liberal FDP, the Social Democrats and the Greens.
"We are very optimistic that this can happen. Within the opposition, we often had very good talks with the FDP and good cooperation with numerous issues across the whole democratic opposition," Hofreiter added.
"I think you can soberly declare that the time of the big people's parties is done. The person that will become chancellor was not voted for by almost 75 percent of the voters and that is why this will be a different dynamic within such a government," Hofreiter said.
"Firstly, Annalena Baerbock and myself will commonly lead the coalition and exploratory talks with a great commonality and great unity and with great strength,'' Greens co-head Robert Habeck discussed in the process of how the talks will be handled.
The German Greens won 14.8 percent of votes in Sunday's federal elections making them Germany's third-largest party in the Bundestag.
Germany: Traffic light coalition 'more likely' - Greens 'optimistic' over talks with FDP to form new govt
Representatives from the Greens Anton Hofreiter, Katrin Goering-Eckardt and party co-leader Robert Habeck addressed possible coalition formations in Berlin on Tuesday, two days after the general election.
"Of course we will talk with all democratic parties but it is more likely to have a 'traffic light coalition' in the end,'' Hofreiter noted, referring to a coalition between the market-liberal FDP, the Social Democrats and the Greens.
"We are very optimistic that this can happen. Within the opposition, we often had very good talks with the FDP and good cooperation with numerous issues across the whole democratic opposition," Hofreiter added.
"I think you can soberly declare that the time of the big people's parties is done. The person that will become chancellor was not voted for by almost 75 percent of the voters and that is why this will be a different dynamic within such a government," Hofreiter said.
"Firstly, Annalena Baerbock and myself will commonly lead the coalition and exploratory talks with a great commonality and great unity and with great strength,'' Greens co-head Robert Habeck discussed in the process of how the talks will be handled.
The German Greens won 14.8 percent of votes in Sunday's federal elections making them Germany's third-largest party in the Bundestag.
Representatives from the Greens Anton Hofreiter, Katrin Goering-Eckardt and party co-leader Robert Habeck addressed possible coalition formations in Berlin on Tuesday, two days after the general election.
"Of course we will talk with all democratic parties but it is more likely to have a 'traffic light coalition' in the end,'' Hofreiter noted, referring to a coalition between the market-liberal FDP, the Social Democrats and the Greens.
"We are very optimistic that this can happen. Within the opposition, we often had very good talks with the FDP and good cooperation with numerous issues across the whole democratic opposition," Hofreiter added.
"I think you can soberly declare that the time of the big people's parties is done. The person that will become chancellor was not voted for by almost 75 percent of the voters and that is why this will be a different dynamic within such a government," Hofreiter said.
"Firstly, Annalena Baerbock and myself will commonly lead the coalition and exploratory talks with a great commonality and great unity and with great strength,'' Greens co-head Robert Habeck discussed in the process of how the talks will be handled.
The German Greens won 14.8 percent of votes in Sunday's federal elections making them Germany's third-largest party in the Bundestag.