Shortly after 8 o’clock at the Messe Berlin, the sun is shining, but it is still quite fresh. SPD candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz gets out of his car. Relatively casually he arrives: Suit, but without a tie, his hand casually in his pocket.
For Scholz it is the next step on his way to the chancellorship. On Day 11 after the Bundestag election, starting at 11 a.m., they will negotiate how to shape Germany over the next four years.
But the others, namely the Greens and the FDP, will set the pace.
The necessary first directional decisions had made the citrus coalition on Wednesday.
This leaves the Union in the further exploratory talks on the outside, the chances for a Jamaica coalition are getting smaller and smaller.
The Union faction in the Bundestag will meet in the afternoon for a switching conference to discuss the current situation.