Olaf Scholz, during the act of this Saturday. /
Scholz affirms that the three parties intend to continue their alliance beyond the recently initiated legislature.
The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) this Saturday became the first of the three formations of the future German government to approve the coalition agreement with the Greens and the Liberal Party (FDP) during an extraordinary congress held in Berlin partially in person and virtual. An overwhelming majority of 98.8% of the delegates signed the pact with the two junior partners after a passionate intervention by the virtual Federal Chancellor and Angela Merkel’s successor, Olaf Scholz. The “Ampel Koalition”, the coalition of the traffic light by the colors that characterize the different formations of the tripartite, is presented to govern with the intention of being re-elected after the next elections in four years, said the person in charge of the resurrection of a party by the one that a year ago no one gave a penny and that was imposed in the general elections last September.
The novel alliance of social democrats, ecologists and liberals is presented to “collaborate in a friendly way and be re-elected,” said Scholz, who commented that “it will be a government of three parties that want to dare with more progress for Germany.” The hitherto federal vice chancellor and finance minister in Merkel’s grand coalition promised a daring government that will not shrink in the face of any challenge. “We will achieve a new change in Germany,” stressed the designated head of the federal executive in reference to 1969 and the beginning of the era of government of the legendary Willy Brandt, the first federal chancellor of the SPD, and to the year 1998, when the also social democrat Gerhard Schröder regained power for his party after 16 years of Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl as head of the German executive. He also stressed that the new coalition will govern in decisive times. “It is also a government that addresses progress at a time when it would be dangerous not to,” said Scholz in his speech.
The next federal chancellor made reference to the fight against climate change, “a great task that encompasses the entire planet”, and assured that the three formations are not betting on prohibitions to face it, but on innovation and science, “for technological progress ». “We in Germany have a great responsibility to stop” global warming, not only because of the need to reduce national emissions, but also to show others “how to do it”. As objectives of his next government, Scholz also spoke of guaranteeing the future of children and young people, the introduction of a new system of social assistance and the construction of affordable housing. The same can be said of the minimum wage of 12 euros an hour and progress in the equalization of men and women, stressed the Social Democratic leader. Regarding the coronavirus pandemic, he stressed that now it is about “fighting it with all the forces at our disposal” and “acting together with decisive measures to break the fourth wave.”
It is expected that the Liberal Party (FDP) will also approve the coalition agreement in an extraordinary congress held this Sunday and that the Greens will announce throughout the weekend the result of the consultation to its 125,000 affiliates to validate to the document prepared after eight weeks of arduous negotiations between the three parties. It is expected that once the procedures within the three formations have been passed, this Tuesday the formal signing of the coalition agreement will proceed and that the Bundestag, the federal parliament, will elect Olaf Scholz as the new federal chancellor on Wednesday in a vote, to that he then swears in office together with his team of ministers before the federal president, Frank Walter Steinmeier.
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