CDU politician Reiner Haseloff missed the necessary majority in the election of the Prime Minister.
Another ballot follows.
Magdeburg - CDU politician and acting Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff * missed the necessary majority of 49 votes by one vote on Thursday in the election of the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt.
Another ballot follows.
The parliamentary groups of the planned coalition of CDU, SPD and FDP have a total of 56 members.
Election bang in Saxony-Anhalt: Haseloff fails in the first ballot - because one vote is missing
Thus, MPs from their own coalition factions denied the 67-year-old the necessary majority in the first ballot. 49 parliamentarians voted no. The CDU requested a break of one hour after the first ballot. In the second ballot, Haseloff again needs a majority of the 97 parliamentarians in the new state parliament.
Haseloff has been head of government in Saxony-Anhalt since 2011. In the state elections on June 6th, the CDU was by far the strongest party. For the Christian Democrats, who had ruled with the SPD and the Greens for the past five years, there were arithmetically different options for forming a government after the election. After weeks of negotiations, the CDU, SPD and FDP finally signed the joint coalition agreement * on Monday.
(dpa / aka) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
