Parliamentary group meeting of the SPDThe chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) parliamentary group , Andrea Nahles ( C ) , arrives for the beginning of a faction meeting in Berlin , Germany , 22 January 2018 . After exploratory talks with the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and their sister party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , Social Democrats ( SPD ) , held a party council on 21 January 2018 in Bonn , where 56 per cent of the delegates voted to go into coalition talks with CDU and CSU . EPA / CLEMENS BILAN ▶ 기사 제보 및 문의 ▶ 기자 와 1 : 1 채팅    ▶ 평창동 계 올림픽 영상 공모전