The SPD, the Greens and the Liberals of the FDP announced this Wednesday, November 24, their coalition contract to form a new government. Olaf Scholz (SPD) is confirmed as chancellor to turn the page Angela Merkel in Germany.
The three parties unveiled their government agreement in the afternoon, distributing the ministerial portfolios between the different parties.
The Social Democrats of the SPD, winners of the federal elections in September, take the head of seven ministries including that of Health, Labor, Interior and Defense.
The Greens obtain the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a large ministry bringing together the Economy and the Climate. The Liberals, in favor of budgetary orthodoxy, inherited the Ministry of Finance and that of Justice.
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The new coalition, known as the “traffic light” (for the red of the SPD, the yellow of the Liberals and the green of the ecologists), also announced the main lines of their project for Germany.
Among the flagship measures, an anticipated exit from coal in 2030 (against 2038 previously), the return to budgetary rigor in 2023 or even the legalization of cannabis in “approved stores”.
The composition of the new government is also beginning to take shape. The ecologist Annalena Baerbock, co-president of the Greens, should take the head of German diplomacy. The finance ministry should fall to the head of the FDP, Christian Lindner, who favors budgetary orthodoxy. The “super ministry” of Climate and the Economy should be headed by Robert Habeck, the other co-president of the Greens.
Olaf Scholz, 63, is due to be made chancellor in early December by members of the Bundestag.
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