The start of the red-red state government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania did not go entirely according to plan on Monday.
Not all of the new government camp elected Manuela Schwesig (SPD) as head of government.
Schwerin - "I'm happy" tweeted Manuela Schwesig (SPD) on Monday after her re-election as Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the Schwerin state parliament. But slight doubts are in order, because Schwesig was unable to unite all the members of the new red-red government camp behind him in the secret election. The 47-year-old received 41 out of 79 votes in the first ballot. That was enough - but the alliance of SPD and Left has 43 votes.
The parliamentary managing director of the CDU state parliamentary group, Sebastian Ehlers, commented on this on Twitter with the word "false start". The parliamentary group leader of the previous ruling and current opposition party, Franz-Robert Liskow, said: “Red-Red advertises new beginnings. This was canceled today. As harmonious as the coalition negotiations may have been, the parliamentary reality is just as brutal. ”Schwesig did not have all the sailors on deck. "There are politically difficult years ahead of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania." The leader of the FDP, René Domke, also stated: "The trust of the government groups is not one hundred percent."
Observers had taken it for granted that Schwesig would get all the votes of the red-red camp. After noiseless coalition negotiations, special party conferences of the SPD and Linker on Saturday almost unanimously approved the coalition agreement. Some also did not want to rule out that Schwesig could also receive one or the other vote from the opposition. But it turned out differently.
The Rostock political scientist Wolfgang Muno reacted with surprise to the election result for Schwesig in the state parliament. Previously, no criticism from one side or the other of the new government camp had been expressed, he told the German Press Agency. It is open who has refused Schwesig his or her vote. According to Muno, it could be SPDists who were dissatisfied with the “personality cult” surrounding Schwesig, or leftists who were dissatisfied with the coalition agreement. For the left, only two small ministries and in terms of content “not the big hit” in the contract came out. "Probably nobody will dare to take cover," he said, because his or her career would then be over.
After she was sworn in in the state parliament, Schwesig appointed her red-red cabinet, which for the first time in the history of the state has more women (five) than men (four). The first meeting of the new cabinet was planned for the evening. It should mainly be about organizational matters, as a government spokesman said. Manuela Schwesig took her oath of office in the state parliament with the religious addition “so help me God”.
In the state elections on September 26, the SPD emerged as the clear winner with 39.6 percent.
The Social Democrats had tailored the state election campaign very much to the person of Schwesig.
The left brought in a historically bad result with 9.9 percent.
Nevertheless, the SPD chose them as a government partner.
There are numerous content overlaps, for example in educational, social and economic policy.
Before that, the Social Democrats had ruled with the CDU for 15 years and before that they had ruled with the Left for two legislative terms.
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The AfD state chairman Leif-Erik Holm said on Monday that it was foreseeable that the business location MV would be damaged under red-red.
“The introduction of an additional holiday is cheap populism and makes our country less attractive for new investors but also for existing companies.
In addition, there are increasingly stricter awarding conditions for contracts, which our small local companies will not be able to keep up with. ”In future, the SPD and Linke only want to award public contracts to companies that pay their employees a tariff for them.
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The electoral term lasts five years.
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