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Germany's CSU sees little common ground with Greens for "Jamaica" coalition
From:Xinhua  |  2017-10-11 20:08

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BERLIN, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Germany's Christian Social Union (CSU) state party leader Alexander Dobrindt Wednesday voiced his doubts over the feasibility of a "Jamaica" coalition.

The "Jamaica" coalition is a term in German politics that describes a potential coalition among the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), CSU, Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Green Party (Greens).

The quartet was still "far" from reaching an agreement on forming a new federal government, Dobrindt told the Funke Media Group.

Above all, he stressed the differences between the positions of the conservative sister parties CDU and CSU, and the left-wing, environmentalist Greens. There was nearly "no overlap" in the views of these two political factions, the CSU politician said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is from the CDU, has invited the potential "Jamaica" coalition partners to join official talks on the establishment of a new government as early as next Wednesday.

Dobrindt warned that while the Greens had a chance to join the governing coalition, the alliance would not tolerate "crazy left-wing ideas."

He indicated that his party would not give up its recently agreed-upon compromise with the CDU to limit migration to Germany.

Katja Doerner, vice president of the Green parliamentary faction, in turn reiterated her party's criticism of the CDU and CSU's new joint stance on migration in the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.

She said the "so-called compromise" merely served as a "face-saving measure" which was "fragile and internally contradictory."

The CDU/CSU compromise sets out a tentative objective of keeping the number of net arrival of humanitarian migrants each year to 200,000. However, it stops short of the fixed annual limit on the number of new asylum seekers demanded by the CSU.

Nevertheless, Merkel voiced optimism that a "Jamaica" coalition could be successfully formed.

She told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland that the CDU, CSU, FDP and Greens had a "responsibility" following the electoral outcome to form a government for the benefit of German citizens.

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