German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU) Angela Merkel addresses a news conference after a CDU party board meeting in Berlin September 23, 2013, the day after the general election. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
BERLIN (Reuters) - Conservative allies of Germany's Angela Merkel said on Wednesday they might agree to raise taxes to help lure the defeated centre-left Social Democrats into a grand coalition that would keep the chancellor in power.
Their overtures came in media interviews ahead of a meeting of SPD leaders in Berlin on Friday, where the opposition will try to chart its new course after losing a third parliamentary election to Merkel and her Christian Democrats (CDU) on Sunday.
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