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Daniel Günther, old and new Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
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The old is also the new: CDU politician Daniel Günther has been re-elected Prime Minister in Schleswig-Holstein's state parliament.
47 MPs voted for Günther, 15 against him.
The remaining 4 of the 66 deputies abstained from voting.
The 48-year-old wants to govern the country together with the Greens for the next five years.
Both had previously ruled together with the FDP, but since the last state election seven weeks ago, the two parliamentary groups have held 48 of the 69 seats in parliament.
The CDU and the Greens each approved the new coalition agreement on Monday.
After Günther's election, the constitutive meeting of the cabinet is scheduled.
In addition to the prime minister and the head of the state chancellery, the CDU has five ministers.
New are the former mayor of Rostock, Claus Ruhe Madsen, as economics minister, the former state farmer president Werner Schwarz as agriculture minister, and the lawyer Kerstin von der Decken, who will be responsible for justice and health.
Karin Prien remains Minister of Education and Sabine Sütterlin-Waack Minister of the Interior.
Monika Heinold continues as Minister of Finance for the Greens.
The 29-year-old Aminata Touré takes over the social department.
The previous State Secretary Tobias Goldschmidt will become Environment and Energy Minister.
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