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Düsseldorf State Parliament (2015)
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The CDU and the Greens have successfully concluded their coalition negotiations for North Rhine-Westphalia.
Five and a half weeks after the state elections, Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) and the party leader of the NRW Greens, Mona Neubaur, want to present the agreement on Thursday (1 p.m.) in Düsseldorf.
Both parties announced this early Thursday morning.
On Saturday, party conferences of the CDU and the Greens in Bonn and Bielefeld are to vote on the first black-green coalition agreement for the most populous federal state.
The base of both parties is expected to agree.
The contract could then be signed by the heads of the delegation at the beginning of the 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 on the agenda of the state parliament for next Tuesday.
Since the CDU and Greens have a comfortable majority of 115 of the 195 seats in the new state parliament, no surprises are to be expected in the five-party parliament.
Negotiations have been going on since the end of May
13 specialist working groups with more than 150 participants had been negotiating since May 31.
The basis was a joint exploratory paper.
In it, the CDU and the Greens pledge to transform North Rhine-Westphalia into a climate-friendly industrial state and to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030. Among other things, both want to increase the number of jobs and the budgets for schools and the police.
All details were kept strictly confidential during the negotiations.
On May 15, the CDU emerged as the clear winner from the state elections with 35.7 percent.
The Greens were able to almost triple their share of the vote compared to 2017 to 18.2 percent and ended up in third place behind the SPD (26.7).
So far, NRW has been governed by the CDU and FDP.
Since the Free Democrats have halved their election result to 5.9 percent, black and yellow can no longer govern.
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