2023-04-24 16:28:00
In Berlin, following the SPD, the CDU also opted for a black-red government coalition. At a state party conference on Monday, the delegates voted unanimously for the coalition agreement negotiated with the SPD, as the CDU announced following the vote. This means that CDU state leader Kai Wegner might be elected governing mayor in the state parliament on Thursday – as the first Christian Democrat since 2001. So far, a red-green-red Senate has ruled in Berlin.
Unlike the SPD, the CDU had not publicly discussed the planned black-red alliance in the German capital. Although there are still supporters of black-green cooperation in the Berlin CDU, Wegner’s course had the broad support of the party from the start.
The Berlin Social Democrats, on the other hand, are clearly divided on the question of a black-red government alliance. In the member vote on the coalition agreement, the result of which was announced on Sunday, there was only a narrow majority of 54.3 percent for the joint government program.
The SPD state chairwoman Franziska Giffey is currently still the governing mayor. She is willing to give up her post for the Black-Red coalition, which she would have kept if the previous alliance of SPD, Greens and Left had continued. Now she has to vacate her office in the Rotes Rathaus for Wegner. However, it is doubtful whether Wegner will get all the votes from the CDU and SPD in his election on Thursday in the plenary hall of the House of Representatives. Black-Red is facing a first stress test.
The SPD, the Greens and the Left once once more received a majority when the parliamentary elections were repeated in February. However, the CDU was around ten percentage points ahead of the SPD, which in turn had left the Greens just as narrowly behind.
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