The SPD and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) have agreed on a joint coalition agreement in Brandenburg. This was confirmed by BSW country manager Robert Crumbach South German newspaper. Both parties want to present the agreement this Wednesday and have invited people to a press conference in the afternoon. First had Picture and BZ reported on the agreement.
In the first week of December, party conferences of the SPD and BSW are scheduled to make a final decision on the contract. After that, Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke could be re-elected and sworn in in the state parliament on December 11th. The SPD and BSW have 46 votes in the state parliament; at least 45 votes are required to elect the Prime Minister.
Before the agreement, BSW MP Sven Hornauf had endangered the talks and threatened not to vote for Woidke – because he would support the deployment of the missile defense system Arrow3 criticized by the federal government at the Holzdorf air base. According to dpa information, the BSW state chairman Crumbach has now assured the SPD that the majority is there – even if it is unclear how Hornauf will vote.
If the SPD or BSW party congresses do not speak out against the coalition agreement, the two-party alliance would be the first of its kind in the history of the Federal Republic. Only a coalition of SPD and BSW has a realistic majority in the state parliament because no party wants to form a coalition with the AfD. The situation is similar in Thuringia: There the CDU, BSW and SPD presented a coalition agreement on Friday.
The SPD and BSW had already announced that reducing bureaucracy and digitalization would be the focus of a joint coalition. It is also clear that they want to continue to relieve parents with lower incomes of daycare contributions. Reading, writing and arithmetic should be a focus in primary schools; analogue teaching should have priority. Both parties oppose an increase in broadcasting fees.
In the exploratory paper, both sides had already agreed that they wanted to work for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine war at the federal and EU levels. They also point to the consequences of sanctions.
The parties also agree on maintaining the hospital locations in Brandenburg. After a dispute over hospital reform, Prime Minister Woidke fired the previous Green Party Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher last Friday. The red-black-green coalition collapsed shortly before its end.
The target number of police stations is to increase to 9,000. Both parties previously agreed that Brandenburg would support all measures to contain, prevent and reject irregular migration.
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