A good ten weeks after the parliamentary elections in Berlin, the CDU and SPD signed the joint coalition agreement. CDU state leader Kai Wegner, CDU general secretary Stefan Evers and the two SPD state chairmen Franziska Giffey and Raed Saleh signed the agreement on Wednesday morning in the ballroom of the House of Representatives.
It is entitled “The best for Berlin”. “And that’s what it’s all about,” said Wegner, “to achieve the best for Berlin.” There are great expectations of the new Senate, which the CDU and SPD can only live up to together. Giffey called black and red an opportunity for Berlin and announced a pragmatic, solution-oriented policy. Both emphasized that they were looking forward to working together.
The priorities of the coalition agreement include a climate protection program worth billions, administrative reform, better equipment for the police and fire brigade and significant progress in housing construction. The overriding goal of a black-red Senate should be a policy of cohesion, as stated in the preamble to the coalition agreement.
It should be the basis for the cooperation between the CDU and SPD over the next three and a half years. Then the legislature ends. She has already started the House of Representatives elections in September 2021. In the repeat election on February 12, the CDU was the strongest party with 28.2 percent. The SPD came in second, just ahead of the Greens, with both parties getting 18.4 percent.
During their coalition talks, the CDU and SPD agreed to govern together. In the SPD membership vote, only 54.3 percent approved the coalition agreement. At a CDU party conference on Monday, the delegates voted unanimously for it. The new black-red coalition replaces the tripartite alliance of SPD, Greens and Left, which have governed Berlin since 2016.
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