在利夫尼设法组成联合政府的同时，奥尔默特将留下来看守联合政府的谈判。

Olmert plans to stay on as caretaker of the negotiations while Livni works to set up a governing coalition.

从6月起，这个国家有了一个联合政府。

Since June the country has had a coalition government.

联合政府所强烈要求的公平，实际上，可能是一个世代的愿景。

The coalition government's strongest claim to fairness may, in fact, be a generational vision.

工党最近宣布，如果它重新掌权，将保留联合政府的大部分开支计划。

The Labor party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition's spending plans if it returns to power.

综上所述，如果本报有权在此次选举中投上一票的话，那么这一票就将会投给自民党，希望它能与默克尔所在的基民盟组成大联合政府。

For all these reasons, if this newspaper had a vote in Germany’s election, it would cast it for the FDP, in the hope that it joins a coalition with Ms Merkel’s CDU.