In Berlin, after the SPD, the CDU also opted for a black-red government coalition. At a state party conference on Monday, delegates voted unanimously in favor of the coalition deal negotiated with the SPD. This means CDU state leader Kai Wegner is likely to be elected governing mayor in the state parliament on Thursday – as the first Christian Democrat since 2001. Until now, 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 advocates of black-green cooperation in the Berlin CDU, Wegner’s course had the party’s broad support from the start.
In the case of the SPD, only a narrow majority for the alliance
The Berlin Social Democrats, on the other hand, are clearly divided on the issue of a black-red government alliance. In the member vote on the coalition agreement, the results of which were announced on Sunday, there was only a narrow majority of 54.3 percent for the joint government program.
The SPD state leader Franziska Giffey is currently still the governing mayor. She is willing to give up her Black-Red coalition post, which she would have kept if the previous alliance of SPD, Greens and the Left had continued – which is what Giffey originally wanted. Now she has to leave her office in the Rotes Rathaus for Wegner. However, it is doubtful whether Wegner will receive all the votes of the CDU and SPD when he is elected on Thursday in the plenary hall of the House of Representatives. Black-Red represents an initial stress test.
CDU won a major election victory
The SPD, the Greens and the Left again won a majority in the parliamentary elections in February. However, the CDU was about ten percentage points ahead of the SPD, leaving the Greens with only the narrowest margin.
Source: Krone
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