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SPD membership vote on the coalition agreement ends
CDU and CSU have cleared the way for the black-red government coalition. Now it still hangs on the SPD, the members of which can vote on the coalition agreement until midnight.
After the approval of the CDU and CSU to the black and red coalition agreement, the eyes are aimed at the SPD: until this evening, 11:59 p.m., the approximately 358,000 party members can still vote on the 144-page contract with the title “Responsibility for Germany”. The result is to be announced on Wednesday. If everything runs smoothly, CDU boss Friedrich Merz will be elected chancellor on May 6th.
In addition to the majority of the votes, the SPD membership survey is necessary to participate 20 percent of the party members. This quorum has already been reached, it said on Monday. However, this is “no reason to reject the next few hours if you have not yet coordinated,” said Secretary General Matthias Miersch. Party youth is dissatisfied with the coalition agreement, but a majority consent to the contract and thus to the planned black and red coalition is likely.
CDU and CSU already agreed
The CSU accepted the coalition agreement shortly after the agreement in mid -April by board decision. On Monday, the CDU also agreed at a small party congress. CDU and CSU also presented the list of their cabinet members. In the new cabinet, the men will again be outnumbered at the Union. The CDU sends four men and three women, the CSU two men and one woman. Politicians from East Germany are even more clearly underrepresented.
Laumann counters CDA criticism of ministerial team
The CDU Federal Vice Presentation Karl-Josef Laumann rejected the harsh criticism from the party’s wing of the party on the cabinet list of Merz. “I am satisfied with it because he has put together a good cabinet,” said the NRW Minister of Labor of the “Rheinische Post”. Laumann was at the forefront of Christian Democratic Working (CDA) for 19 years. His successor there, Dennis Radtke, had severely criticized the selection of the CDU ministers.
Radtke told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, he “finds it strange and wrong that no representative of the Christian-social root of our party is part of the cabinet”. Laumann said it was correct that the party’s workers’ wing had not been considered. “But I don’t think those who are now in the cabinet are the people of medium -sized companies.” In addition, the coalition agreement is more important. It is also important that the future government has a “good, inner climate”.
“Good illustration of the People’s Party”
The designated Chancellery Minister Thorsten Frei (CDU) told the “Rheinische Post” that the Union’s Easternland Associations were well represented with an Economic Minister from Brandenburg as well as several State Secretaries and a Minister of State. In the ZDF “today journal” Frei said that the planned ministerial team was a “good illustration of the People’s Party”. “And above all, they come for very different professional backgrounds,” said Frei, who comes from Baden-Württemberg and is previously the first parliamentary managing director of the Union in the Bundestag.
The SPD wants to announce its seven ministers on Monday – one day before the planned appointment of CDU boss Merz as Chancellor. Secretary General Miersch said there were many points of view that would have to be taken into account. These include, for example, the question of parity, the departments and professional suitability and the regionally good distribution of future ministers. Among other things, the SPD may occupy the top of the Ministry of Finance.
What will become of the SPD party leader ESKE?
The future role of party leader Saskia Esken is violently controversial in the party. The state board of the Baden-Württemberg SPD no longer nominated them on Monday evening for the federal executive board. According to the State SPD, Esken had not presented a candidacy. State chief Andreas Stoch said: “In consultation with Saskia Esken, this is not a preliminary decision for the question of whether she is again running as party leader or not.”
Even without nomination by her home association, ESKE could still be nominated as the federal chairman of the federal board or spontaneously run at a party conference. The party leadership will be re -elected in June. The SPD general secretary in Baden-Württemberg, Sascha Binder, recently said that Esken was not one of the four best SPD women.
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Source: Stern
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