2007–08 Belgian government formation partition of Belgium. On November 6, the formation talks became the longest in Belgian history. When the Parliament confirmed the formation of an interim Government, it had been 196 days since the Belgian people had voted out the previous coalition. It was the second longest formation period in European history, after the Dutch record of 208 days in 1977. Talks were interrupted twice by the resignation of the "formateur", which left the political parties waiting for a new appointment by the King. Guy Verhofstadt was appointed as mediator on December 3, with the task not only of looking into the
SPD party member vote on the 2018 coalition agreement of Germany which the SPD gained only 20.5%, the worst result ever, then SPD chief Martin Schulz had ruled out a participation of his party in a new federal government with the CDU party of Angela Merkel. Even after the failed coalition talks between CDU, FDP, and Alliance 90/The Greens, the party board stuck to the no decision. But in December 2017 opinions changed, the board voted in favor of exploratory talks. After they were successfully completed, the SPD party entered coalition talks with CDU and CSU parties in January 2018. Martin Schulz had to step back after the coalition talks. All