Blackberry Coalition
(Almost) everything is new in the Free State: This is Thuringia’s new cabinet
For a long time, the parties in Thuringia’s new blackberry coalition remained silent about their personnel for the ministries. Now Prime Minister Mario Voigt presents his cabinet.
Thuringia’s new Prime Minister Mario Voigt (CDU) has appointed the new cabinet members of his government from the CDU, Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) and SPD. The ministers were then sworn in on Friday in the state parliament in Erfurt.
In addition to the Prime Minister, Stefan Gruhner, the CDU also has the head of the State Chancellery and occupies three ministries. The new education minister is Christian Tischner, the entrepreneur Colette Boos-John is the new economics minister, and Beate Meißner has been appointed justice minister.
Thuringia’s Interior Minister remains in office
For the BSW, state head Katja Wolf took over the Ministry of Finance, Tilo Kummer took over the Ministry of the Environment and co-state head Steffen Schütz took over the department for digital and infrastructure. For the SPD, state leader Georg Maier remains Interior Minister, while the Ministry of Social Affairs was taken over by the former Interior State Secretary Katharina Schenk.
Voigt was elected as the new head of government and successor to Bodo Ramelow (Left) in the Thuringian state parliament on Thursday in the first round of voting with votes from the coalition factions and support from the Left Party.
The so-called blackberry coalition does not have its own majority. The coalition primarily wants to involve the left in the search for majorities for legislative initiatives and the state budget; appropriate regulations and regular meetings have been agreed for this purpose.
The only other opposition party in the state parliament is the AfD, which has been classified as right-wing extremist by the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Although it became the strongest force in the state elections, no other party wants to work with it.
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Source: Stern
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