Saturday 20th November 2021
Cabinet list circulates
This is what the future cabinet could look like
The new government should be in place by Nicholas, the substantive negotiations of the traffic light parties are on the home stretch. In so-called political Berlin, there is currently a list of names and departments that will represent the future cabinet of a Scholz government.
The coalition negotiations between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP are on the home straight – and there already seem to be initial determinations of the distribution of posts in the future government. In Berlin there is a list of names and departmental assignments that ntv has at its disposal. The source and truthfulness are completely unclear, but since speculation is interesting, we decide to document the list here.
A Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz would therefore from Wolfgang Schmidt as Minister of the Chancellery supports. Schmidt has been Scholz’s companion and right-hand man for many years. He is currently State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance.
For the SPD could also be Minister of Economic Affairs the previous Environment Minister Svenja Schulze sit in the cabinet. This department would therefore be supplemented by the areas of “transformation” or construction. However, the list is unclear at this point; she also leads Robert Habeck as the future Minister of Economic Affairs, who – expanded to include the issue of climate – would turn it into a kind of super ministry. In return, the Greens of the FDP would Ministry of Finance leave that to then Christian Lindner would take over. Greens co-boss Annelena Baerbock would do that Foreign Ministry.
The other posts for the SPD: Minister of the Interior would Christine Lambrecht, the previous Minister of Justice and Family Affairs. The department Work and social would continue from Hubertus Heil supervised. The area Education and Research would Klara Geywitz take over – Geywitz was Scholz’s co-candidate in the unsuccessful election for the SPD leadership in 2019. Development Minister would Bärbel Kofler become, since 2016 human rights commissioner of the federal government.
If Habeck were to become economics and climate minister, the remaining tasks of the previous environment ministry could either be the Ministry of Agriculture be slammed or that Ministry of Environment would be preserved and would be supplemented by competencies in the forest area. Either way, the list sees the long-time Greens federal manager Steffi Lemke for it before.
The other posts for the Greens: parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter would therefore Minister of transport. Co-group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt would that Family Ministry take over.
The other posts for the FDP: General Secretary Volker Wissing or – mentioned in brackets – the First Parliamentary Managing Director of the FDP parliamentary group, Marco Buschmann, could take over the justice department; Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann would Defense Minister, and Michael Theurer would Jens Spahn as Minister of Health inherit.