LIVE: FDP general secretary gives statement on German election result and possible coalition

Ruptly is live from the Free Democratic Party (FDP)'s headquarters in Berlin on Wednesday, September 29, as the party's general secretary Volker Wissing is expected to give a statement on the results of the German federal election and the beginning of the coalition talks.

On Sunday, tens of millions of Germans cast their ballots to determine the country’s next government in a vote that will eventually decide on a successor for Angela Merkel after 16 years as Germany's chancellor.

According to official provisional results, the SPD came first with 25.7 percent and 206 seats, while the CDU, along with its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, came second with 24.1 percent and 196 seats - a historical low. The Greens and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), both of which will likely be key to forming any new government, came in third with 14.8 percent, and 118 seats, and fourth with 11.5 percent, and 92 seats, respectively.