After the stressed harmony of the past few weeks, this was to be expected: the SPD and the Left in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania almost unanimously agree to the coalition agreement.
Güstrow - The red-red state government in Schwerin can start. After the two party congresses in Wismar and Güstrow, at which the delegates almost unanimously approved the coalition agreement, the coalition agreement was signed in Schwerin. Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig and the parliamentary group leader Thomas Krüger for the SPD as well as the parliamentary group chairman Simone Oldenburg and co-party leader Wenke Brüdgam for the Left signed the 77-page work on Saturday afternoon.
"We are looking forward to being able to get started with the departure in 2030," said Schwesig.
Oldenburg once again highlighted the great similarities between the two parties.
This is "a common departure for our Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania." At the beginning of next week Schwesig is to be re-elected as Prime Minister in the state parliament and then her cabinet will be sworn in.
In her 45-minute speech in Wismar, Schwesig had asked for approval for the contract.
She emphasized the triad of a strong economy with good wages, social justice and ecological responsibility, which should be the focus of the new five-year legislative period.
Schwesig said she was aware of her great responsibility and accepted the election result with humility.
No other party has such future competence as the SPD, she stressed.
One of the priorities in the coming years should be the participation of young people.
"The future begins now," said the Prime Minister.
The voting age will be lowered to 16 years.
There are also plans to introduce an additional public holiday on March 8th, International Women's Day.
Both parties are planning improvements in daycare centers, after-school care centers and schools.
They want to make agriculture more environmentally friendly - the organically farmed agricultural area should grow by a third by 2026.
"The left is capable of governing, and the left is also willing to govern," said the parliamentary group leader of the left in the Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch, in Güstrow.
"It is an opportunity for us." Above all, it is an opportunity for the country.
Oldenburg demanded that the coalition agreement must be filled with life.
"We mustn't screw up this historic opportunity."
In the red-red government, Oldenburg is to become Minister of Education and Vice-Prime Minister.
Your party friend Jacqueline Bernhardt is to take over the Ministry of Justice.
The delegates in Güstrow voted unanimously for the appointment of both ministers.
For the first time in the history of the state, women will be in the majority at the Schwerin cabinet table.
In addition to Schwesig, the SPD and the Left have agreed on four ministers.
The SPD had clearly won the state election on September 26th with 39.6 percent.
The left came up with 9.9 percent.
The red-red alliance has 43 seats in the 79-member state parliament.
The SPD has 34 MPs, the Left 9.
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The SPD, headed by Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig, is at the beginning of a discussion marathon.
With the CDU and the Left, explorations will start on Friday, followed later by the two smaller parties, the Greens and the FDP.
Schwesig made her line clear.
Exploratory talks started in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Left want to get MV "from the wage cellar"
The left are happy about the opportunity to return to the Schwerin state government after 15 years of opposition.
"We are pleased with the decision," said the spokeswoman for the Left Party's exploratory group, Simone Oldenburg, on Wednesday evening.
Previously, the SPD state chairman and Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig announced that she wanted to start coalition negotiations with the left.
Left want to get MV "from the wage cellar"
There was already a red-red state government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1998 to 2006. Then the then Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff (SPD) switched to the CDU as a small government partner because he found the red-red majority of one vote in the state parliament too shaky .
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