Side note: if you are curious where the term "traffic light coalition" comes from: the traditional symbolic colors for social democrats, liberals and the green

Side note: if you are curious where the term "traffic light coalition" comes from: the traditional symbolic colors for social democrats, liberals and the green party are red, yellow and green respectively[0]. It is also a term that is less unwieldy to say in German ("Ampel" = traffic light) than it is in English. Referring to combinations of colors is a common way of describing coalitions of political parties here. The names Kenya-coalition (black, red, green = conservatives, social democrats and greens) and Jamaica-coalition [1](black, yellow, green = conservatives, liberals and green) after the colors of the countries' flags are also commonly used. It might sound silly at first but it's a way of concisely describing combinations of parties without having to come up with new names all the time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_coalition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_coalition [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_coalition_(politics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_coalition_(politics)