Overview
- CDU state leader Stefan Evers said on Tuesday that he would offer exploratory Sondierungsgespräche to the Greens and SPD and told reporters “our hand is outstretched.”
- Representatives of the Greens and SPD told the CDU the meeting was about concrete issues such as the state budget and have said they will not open new exploratory coalition talks while formal negotiations are under way.
- The Left, Greens and SPD formally began coalition negotiations on Monday and party leaders say those talks remain the main route to forming a new Berlin government.
- Evers argued there had been continuous exchanges between the CDU, Greens and SPD and that his invitation came before the Left–Green–SPD talks started, and he warned against a Left-led state government.
- The result is parallel outreach and competing public framings that leave the outcome uncertain, with Greens and SPD promising continued budget and handover talks with the CDU to keep government business running as formal coalition talks proceed.