The traffic light parties want to present the coalition agreement next week.
But now the presumably provisional distribution of the ministerial posts has already leaked.
Berlin - The traffic light parties FDP, the Greens and SPD have been in negotiations for a future government since the federal election.
It is important to clarify content-related questions.
The parties want to present the coalition agreement as early as next week, then personnel issues could also be officially clarified.
Internally, however, there seems to be a wish list for the ministerial posts.
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now wants to have an insight into the current status of the negotiations.
Preliminary status: This is how the traffic light wants to distribute the ministerial posts
Annalena Baerbock should therefore become foreign minister. This is evident from the internal information from traffic light circles that is
available
to
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. It stands for close, transatlantic cooperation and the EU's strong position vis-à-vis China. During the negotiations of the Ampel coalition, Robert Habeck was at times under discussion as Minister of the Interior. He himself had emphasized that he was confident enough of the traditional CDU-led posts. But according to the internals that have now been broken through, the traffic light parties envisage the position of "super minister" for him. He would not only be Minister of Economic Affairs, but also responsible for the climate issue, which is so important to the Greens. The Greens had already announced during the election campaign that they wanted to create a climate ministry with the right to veto.
At times, both Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner were in talks for the post of finance minister.
Now, according to the provisional division of responsibilities, Lindner is said to have prevailed.
In the run-up, the Nobel laureate in economics, Joseph Stiglitz and his colleague Adam Tooze had warned against Lindner as finance minister.
His politics and his understanding of the economy are not up-to-date, Lindner “represents clichés from the 1990s”, according to the scientists.
Traffic light coalition: surprise in the Federal Ministry of the Interior
She had actually announced her withdrawal from the Bundestag, but she should now occupy an important position in the new federal government: the current Minister of Justice and executive Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Christine Lambrecht, is to become Interior Minister in the future. The 56-year-old lawyer has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. The Ministry of the Interior is the third most important post in the federal government. The importance of the department increased during the corona pandemic.
The Federal Minister of the Interior deals, among other things, with issues such as migration or security, which are traditionally difficult for the Greens.
Accordingly, it makes sense to entrust the post to an SPD politician.
So far, the Ministry of the Interior has only been in the hands of the SPD once - unless one disregards Jürgen Schmude's 14-day term in office.
Otto Schily held the office of Federal Minister of the Interior from 1998 to 2005.
This is what the new federal government could look like
The entire preliminary list according to
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information:
Federal Chancellor:
Olaf Scholz (SPD)
Finances:
Christian Lindner (FDP)
Economy and climate:
Robert Habeck (Greens)
Outside:
Annalena Baerbock (Greens)
Inside:
Christine Lambrecht (SPD)
Transformation / construction
(not yet finally clarified): Svenja Schulze (SPD)
Health:
Michael Theurer (FDP)
Labor and social affairs:
Hubertus Heil (SPD)
Traffic:
Anton Hofreiter (Greens)
Defense:
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP)
Justice:
Volker Wissing or Marco Buschmann (FDP)
Family:
Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens)
Development:
Bärbel Kofler (SPD)
Environment / agriculture / nutrition
(not yet finalized): Steffi Lemke (Greens)
Education and research:
Klara Geywitz (SPD)
Chancellery:
Wolfgang Schmidt (SPD)
The post of State Secretary in the Ministry of Construction should go to Florian Pronold.
