Parties Face Deadline In Preliminary Coalition Talks
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 17: German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the last day of preliminary talks over the creation of a new government coalition which are is adjourned on November 17, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The German Christian Democrats (CDU), its sister party the Bavarian Christian Democrats (CSU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens Party (Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen) have been slogging through three weeks of talks that have shown a reluctance for compromise on certain key issues, making the outcome uncertain. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)