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(AFP) CDU leader Friedrich Merz (R) reacts with Gitta Connemann, designated Parliamentary State Secretary for Economic Affairs, next to CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann during the federal committee meeting of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, on April 28, 2025 in Berlin.

The committee will discuss and adopt the coalition agreement negotiated with the social democratic SPD party. The CDU's federal committee is the second highest body of the party – after the party congress.

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance has sealed a coalition deal with the centre-left SPD party after winning an election in February 2025, with the new government set to take office on May 6, 2025. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)