Formation of government
The CDU and SPD in Saxony agree on a coalition agreement
After the failed blackberry negotiations in Saxony, the CDU and SPD form a minority government. An overview of what the coalition partners plan to do in the coming years.
In Saxony, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer’s CDU and the SPD have agreed on a coalition agreement. The content of the contract is to be presented on Wednesday afternoon in Dresden, as the SPD announced in the state capital. The two parties want to form a minority government in the Free State after the state elections on September 1st.
According to media reports, there was an agreement on the budget. Black-red wants, among other things, to cut payments for the future pensions of Saxon civil servants in order to enable investments. There will also be a pilot project through which people who are required to leave the country will have to leave the Free State more quickly in the future. It had already become known that the CDU and SPD had agreed on a Saxon border police and a mandatory preschool year.
According to reports, the CDU should retain the ministries of interior, finance and culture in the new government. There will also be agriculture and the environment and a newly created infrastructure ministry. The ministries of science as well as culture and tourism will be united into one house and will also remain in the hands of the CDU. As before, the SPD should occupy the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Blackberry negotiations with BSW in Saxony failed
The coalition negotiations lasted a good two weeks. After the election, the CDU and SPD initially held talks with the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), but these failed, among other things, due to differences on the subject of peace policy. A date for the prime minister election had not yet been set. According to the state constitution, this would take until the beginning of February.
Since the CDU and SPD are ten votes short of a majority in the state parliament, they need support from other parliamentary groups. Black and Red has therefore announced a so-called consultation mechanism with which the opposition – including the AfD – should be involved in legislative proposals at an early stage.
In the state elections on September 1st, the CDU became the strongest force in Saxony with 31.9 percent of the vote, ahead of the AfD (30.6 percent). Since the Union categorically rules out an alliance with the AfD and also with the Left, only an alliance of the CDU, Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) and SPD was considered for a majority government, but this failed in the exploratory phase.
Note: This post has been updated.
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Source: Stern
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