After the end of the SPD-BSW coalition in Brandenburg, the SPD and CDU are negotiating a new alliance. The first results should be available on Wednesday.
dpa | Three and a half weeks after the start, the coalition negotiations between the SPD and CDU in Brandenburg are entering the decisive round. According to information from the German Press Agency, all five working groups should have submitted their results to the main team by this Wednesday.
The main round, led by Prime Minister and SPD state leader Dietmar Woidke and CDU state chairman Jan Redmann, will then decide whether the proposals can be financed.
The two parties say they are making good progress. “We want to be finished by the end of February,” said Redmann on Tuesday. Then the coalition agreement should be available. SPD General Secretary Kurt Fischer said: “The end of February/beginning of March is definitely a realistic time window if we continue to make good progress.” An SPD party conference is planned for March 14th, and the CDU wants to question its members.
We want to be finished by the end of February
Jan Redmann, CDU
The pillars of the planned coalition should be stability and security. So far no details have been leaked. The biggest challenge is the difficult financial situation. However, the coalition does not want to save money with the “lawnmower”, but instead wants to set priorities. Redmann had suggested that internal security could be one of them.
BSW in the sulk corner
On January 6th, Woidke declared the only SPD-BSW coalition in Germany to be over after weeks of disputes in the BSW state parliamentary group and several resignations. The Sahra Wagenknecht alliance accuses the SPD of specifically planning the exit in order to form a coalition with the CDU.
After the state elections in September 2024, the CDU rejected an alliance with the SPD citing a lack of a majority. After two BSW MPs moved to the SPD parliamentary group, the SPD and CDU now have a two-vote majority in the state parliament. Both parties have already governed together in Brandenburg: from 1999 to 2009, first under Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe and then under Matthias Platzeck, and from 2019 to 2024 under Prime Minister Woidke together with the Greens.
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