Friday 5th November 2021
No more disputed points
SPD and left in MV forge an alliance
While the coalition negotiations of the traffic light parties in the federal government are stalling, the red-red alliance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will be completed faster than planned. SPD Prime Minister Schwesig and Left Leader Oldenburg are now putting the resolutions to a vote at party congresses.
After eight rounds of talks, the SPD and the Left in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have concluded their coalition negotiations. The negotiators, the Social Democratic Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig and Left Party parliamentary group leader Simone Oldenburg, spoke of fair and result-oriented discussions. The large blocks of content have been negotiated to the end, there are no more controversial points, said Schwesig. The distribution of the departments between the two parties should be discussed in the coming week.
After an editorial revision on the weekend, the text of the contract is to be presented to the public on Monday and sent to the party members. Extraordinary party conferences of both parties are to discuss the draft on Saturday next week.
In the event of approval, Schwesig wants to stand for re-election in the state parliament on November 15 and appoint her cabinet. Since the coalition negotiations went faster than originally assumed, the formation of the government can be brought forward by a week. The SPD and the Left put their political plans under the motto “# Aufbruch2030”.
A thousand additional teachers
Among other things, they want to expand wind, solar and hydrogen energy, plant five million trees and renature bogs to protect the climate. Public contracts should only be awarded to companies that pay collective wages. A thousand additional teachers are to be brought to schools in the northeastern state. In addition, the red-red coalition wants to make Women’s Day on March 8 a public holiday in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and reduce the voting age to 16 years.
The planned red-red coalition has a majority of 43 of the 79 seats in the Schwerin state parliament. The SPD has 34 and the Left has nine Landtag seats. AfD, CDU, Greens and FDP form the opposition. The SPD emerged victorious from the state elections on September 26th. It reached 39.6 percent, nine percentage points more than in 2016. AfD, CDU and Left lost votes, while the Greens and FDP returned to the state parliament after a long absence.