However, Schulz did stress that there's «no automatic path» to a coalition, adding that
SPD members would have to vote on any decisions.
In Dortmund on Sunday,
SPD members will finalize the party's platform.
Now that
SPD members have approved their party's grand coalition agreement with conservatives, it's time to decide who will take what ministry.
Not exact matches
Grassroots
members of Germany's Social Democrats (
SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.
However, polls suggested that if the
SPD's
members had rejected the deal and effectively triggered fresh elections, the party would have been thoroughly thrashed by the electorate.
The
SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party
members, many of whom wanted the
SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.
Thousands of brand - new
members of the Social Democratic Party (
SPD) may very well be the ones who decide on whether Germany will be governed by a grand coalition with Angela Merkel at its helm.
I'm not convinced the idea will convince many Labour
members short of Britain becoming engaged in a new war to prevent the rise of European Fascism, but if the
SPD can do it in Germany perhaps those well - known
members are so keen to spell out in great detail the deep cuts Labour will make would consider it.
«Contacts with scientists, research institutions, and industry are very valuable for us,» Bundestag
member Ulla Burchardt (
SPD) said when opening the convention.
But first, the roughly 460,000
members of the
SPD have to approve the coalition agreement.
In neighboring Rheinland - Pfalz, the Greens knocked the Social Democrats (
SPD) from their absolute majority, forcing the
SPD to accept the Greens as coalition
members in order to preserve their hold on the state government.