Suffering the lowest vote rates since 1949, the SPD had repeatedly ruled out a grand coalition again with the Union after the current one and vowed to go into the opposition.

Merkel said after the breakdown of the Jamaica talks that she preferred a stable government, which ruled out a minority one without a coalition with other parties.

However, the Union and the SPD hold different grounds in some policies, especially immigration.

The SPD wants to retain the right of family reunion of successful asylum seekers, with which they can bring their family members to Germany, and opposes an annual ceiling for immigrants with the humanitarian reasons.

The CSU, which is at the front of Germany's southern borders, is against refugees' family reunion, and the Union had already agreed on a cap of immigrants of 200,000 every year.

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