Merkel's Bavarian allies warn SPD to stick to deal on migrants


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  • Saturday, 24 Feb 2018

FILE PHOTO - Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Soeder delivers his speech at the Christian Social Union (CSU) traditional Ash Wednesday meeting in Passau, Germany February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

BERLIN (Reuters) - Top officials in the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Saturday warned the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) that failure to stick to agreements on migrants could cause the collapse of the potential new German government.

SPD members, who have the final say on the coalition agreement for Europe's largest economy, must vote by March 2 in a postal ballot, with results to be made public on March 4.

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