Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Martin Schulz arrives for talks at the party headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, Germany, January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - A flood of new members signing up to Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) in the hope of voting down a renewed coalition deal with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives is raising time pressure on negotiators trying to thrash out an accord.
The SPD voted on Sunday to begin formal coalition talks with Merkel's bloc despite reservations among some members after the centre-left party suffered its worst result of the postwar era in last September's federal election.
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