In April 2025 the SPD put its coalition agreement with the CDU and CSU to a vote of its members. Of those who voted, 84.6 percent approved. Turnout was 56 percent. The party had done the same before. In 2013, 76 percent approved. In 2018, 66 percent approved, despite a campaign against the coalition organized by the head of the party’s youth wing, Kevin Kühnert.