After Thuringia, another state in East Germany now has a government in which the Sarah Wagenknecht alliance is involved. With his help, current Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) will be able to save his office.
Party conferences of the SPD and BSW are scheduled for the first week of December to make a final decision on the contract, which will be presented later today, Wednesday. This means that Woidke can be re-elected to the state parliament and sworn in as prime minister on December 11. BSW MP Sven Hornauf had previously jeopardized the talks. He threatened not to vote for Woidke in the state parliament because of criticism of the federal government’s stationing of the Arrow 3 missile defense system at the Holzdorf air base.
Small government majority in the state parliament
BSW Head of State Robert Crumbach has now assured his coalition partner that the majority is there – even though it is unclear how Hornauf will vote. The alliance would have a majority of two votes in the state parliament, without Hornauf it would only have a majority of one vote.
The SPD and BSW have already announced that reducing bureaucracy and digitalization should be the focus of a joint coalition. It is also clear that they want to continue to relieve parents with lower incomes of the contributions for daycare centers. In the exploratory document, both sides had already agreed that they wanted to work on a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine at the federal and EU level in Germany. Reference is made to the consequences of sanctions.
The movement, which split from the left, linked government cooperation to these points. Only a coalition of SPD and BSW has a realistic majority in the state parliament, because no party wants to form a coalition with the right-wing AfD.
Source: Krone
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