Red-red before government work began in Schwerin

After the joint coalition agreement has been signed, the SPD and the Left want to get down to government work on Monday.

The current and future head of government is self-confident.

Güstrow / Wismar - After noiseless coalition negotiations and stressed harmony, the red-red state government wants to start government work on Monday.

At the weekend, the SPD and the Left signed the coalition agreement after both parties had almost unanimously voted in favor of the agreement at special party conferences.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) is to be re-elected in the state parliament in Schwerin on Monday and her cabinet appointed.

A first meeting is to be held in the evening.

"We look forward to the fact that we can start with the departure in 2030," said Schwesig at the weekend.

The chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the state parliament, Simone Oldenburg, once again highlighted the great similarities between the two parties.

This is "a common departure for our Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania."

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In the state elections on Sunday, the CDU achieved its worst result to date in MV with 13.3 percent.

For Prime Minister Schwesig, however, she remains a possible coalition partner.

Exploratory talks begin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Exploratory talks started in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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

Exploratory talks begin: also meetings of small parties

Five days after the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the first exploratory discussion between the election winner SPD and the CDU will take place this Friday.

This was confirmed by party circles on Thursday at the request of the German press agency.

The media had previously reported.

As a rule, confidentiality is agreed for exploratory talks;

it is about a first tapping of positions in order to sound out possible overlaps and compromise possibilities.

Exploratory talks begin: also meetings of small parties

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.

In addition, Schwesig wants to give the state a stronger role in Berlin.

"Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania already has a good weight in Berlin, I will of course increase that weight," she announced after the special party conference.

"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.

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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