Merkel to explore coalition options with Greens as well as SPD


BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will propose holding exploratory talks about a possible governing coalition with the Greens as well as a meeting already scheduled with the main opposition Social Democrats (SPD), a senior party official said on Monday.

Hermann Groehe, general secretary of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), told reporters the chancellor would contact the environmentalist Greens party - the smallest in the Bundestag since the September 22 election - on Monday or Tuesday.

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