Will the CDU now have to seriously go shopping for a new junior coalition partner? The FDP look to be in terrible shape and I am pretty sure the SPD doesn't want to play second fiddle forever in "grosse coalitions."
What makes you pretty sure of that ? It's not like they can hope anything better in the coming 10 years or so... Plus they happen to actually get some things passed, like the minimum wage.
I agree with you about the next few years but they have been the alternative party of Government, not the junior party. The FDP have worked with the CDU for decades, I very much doubt seeing the SPD doing that.