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Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck hugs the Greens' top candidate Monika Heinold
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After the clear victory of the CDU in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, the Greens and FDP are campaigning for government participation as junior partners of Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU).
Greens top candidate Monika Heinold said on ARD that the party "already has an expectation that we can help govern".
It is up to Günther whether there will be a modern state government with the Greens.
If there is no black-green state government, her party will pursue “tough opposition policy”.
FDP top candidate Bernd Buchholz also said on ZDF that his party was ready for the coming state government.
"We are available to participate in the middle." He sees more common intersections between the CDU and FDP.
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So far, Günther has led a Jamaica coalition with the Greens and the FDP.
For a majority in the Kiel state parliament, however, he only needs one coalition partner in the future.
According to initial projections, the CDU is over 42 percent.
The Greens follow in second place with just under 18 percent.
The FDP ends up at seven percent.
Mathematically, a coalition of the CDU and the Greens as well as the CDU and the FDP would be possible.
Even a two-party alliance between the CDU and the SSW would have a majority.
Heinold and Buchholz received backing from their parties.
The Green Federal Economics Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said of a black-green state government: "I think that would be a success story." Schleswig-Holstein is currently developing in the direction of progressiveness.
According to Habeck, an alliance of a value-conservative CDU with the progressive Greens would be good.
As the election winner, Prime Minister Günther was also "clever enough" to say that if two people had won the election, they should form a coalition together.
“Of course we are available to form a government,” said the co-chairman of the Greens, Ricarda Lang.
But the ball is in Günther's hands.
FDP leader Christian Lindner emphasized that in the north there is a "bourgeois majority in the center of the Union and FDP".
FDP Federal Vice Wolfgang Kubicki campaigned for an alliance between his party and the CDU.
"If you want to keep Schleswig-Holstein on a progressive course, then that's only possible with us and the Union," said Kubicki.
However, the FDP was able to achieve “only an average result”.
The most important thing for him, however, is: "There is a majority of CDU and Liberals." However, it is now up to the CDU to decide on their alliance partner.
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