A new set of traffic lights in the German capital

Social Democrat Olaf Scholz is to be the new German Chancellor.

The government will be made up of three parties, the SPD, The Greens and the Free Democrats.

The government will be known as the traffic light coalition owing to the colours of the three parties; red for the Social Democrats, green for the greens and yellow is the colour of the Free Democrats.

The soon-to-be-elected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the “traffic light” name given to the coalition would stand it in good stead. 

“In 1924 the world’s first traffic light was erected on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz. It was considered an unusual bit of technology, and people asked: ‘can it work?’ But now we cannot imagine life without it: it helps us to get to where we want to go in a fast and safe manner.” He said his goal was “that this coalition is similarly pioneering for Germany”.