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Hendrik Wüst and Mona Neubaur at the presentation of the coalition agreement in Düsseldorf
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The CDU is to occupy eight ministerial posts in a black-green government in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Greens four.
This emerges from the coalition agreement between the two parties, which Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) and the state party leader of the Greens, Mona Neubaur, presented in Düsseldorf.
Among other things, the ministries of the interior, finance and schools are to go to the CDU.
The "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" had previously reported.
Neubaur specifically presented the departments of the Greens: According to this, there should be a “super ministry” for business, industry, climate protection and energy.
The 44-year-old is traded for this.
The cabinet details are to be announced next Wednesday.
In addition, the Greens are to head a ministry for transport, the environment and nature conservation, as well as the justice ministry and another large ministry for family, children and youth, equality, integration and flight.
Wüst did not want to announce the shape of the CDU-led ministries.
10,000 new teachers and 3,000 police officers annually
The two parties had reached an agreement after just over three weeks of negotiations.
The coalition agreement bears the title »Future Agreement for North Rhine-Westphalia«.
The local public transport is therefore to be massively expanded.
The government alliance wants to hire 10,000 new teachers and 3,000 new police officers every year.
In the coalition negotiations, it was possible to "reconcile supposed opposites in order to create something good," said Wüst at the presentation of the contract.
Both parties share the same compass - more climate protection, a sustainable economy, future-proof infrastructure, investments in education and solid finances.
Neubaur emphasized that the agreement lays the substantive foundation "that can carry us for five years".
Both partners wanted to make NRW the first climate-neutral industrial region in Europe.
During this time, the most populous federal state should become more socially just, ecological, digital and economically stronger.
Renewable energies would be significantly expanded.
Party congresses of the CDU and the Greens in Bonn and Bielefeld have to vote on the contract on Saturday.
The contract could be signed by the heads of the delegations early next week.
The re-election of Prime Minister Wüst, who led a black-yellow coalition for eight months as the successor to Armin Laschet (CDU), is planned for next Tuesday in the state parliament.
Since the CDU and the Greens have a majority of 115 of the 195 mandates, no surprises are to be expected in the five-party parliament.
On May 15, the CDU clearly won the state election with 35.7 percent.
The Greens almost tripled their share of the vote to 18.2 percent and ended up in third place behind the SPD (26.7).
The previously co-governing FDP had halved its result to 5.9 percent.
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