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DThe Greens and the CDU in Baden-Württemberg want to start negotiations on the formation of a second green-black coalition in the next week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann’s proposal to form a green-black coalition with the SPD and the FDP instead of the traffic lights initially failed to find a majority on his party’s state board. The vote had to be postponed. On Saturday afternoon, Kretschmann and CDU state president Thomas Strobl presented a seven-page A4 document as a result of the two-week scans. It should be the basis for the coalition negotiations, which will begin next Wednesday.
Kretschmann made it clear that this was not a continuation of the old green-black coalition and not a “complementary coalition” in which the basis for joint work is limited. Kretschmann insisted on the future claim to leadership of the Greens, which got about eight percentage points more than the CDU in the state elections with 32.4 percent. “Now we have a clear claim to leadership, it can be a real new beginning,” said the prime minister.
CDU wants to emphasize more the ecological agenda
Strobl repeatedly assured that the CDU would now accept the Greens’ claim to leadership in the future. The leader of the CDU parliamentary group, Wolfgang Reinhart, spoke of a “bourgeois-ecological bridge coalition”.
An ambitious climate protection program aims to ensure the cohesion of the future state government. The Greens want to convince their skeptical base of the CDU and give a response to the demands of the climate protection movement “Fridays for Future”; With the ambitious climate protection program, the CDU wants to emphasize its ecological agenda more strongly along with its conservative and social roots. Strobl said that on the issue of climate protection, the Greens had run into “open doors” at the CDU. The CDU had already moved strongly towards the Greens in its electoral manifesto (“New Ideas for a New Era”), but in the previous green-black government there had been a fierce dispute between the Greens and the CDU over the new law of climate protection. for many months.
The climate protection goals for the future government are now extremely ambitious: Kretschmann said he had great respect for what he has set out to do on this issue. 1000 new wind turbines will be built in the state forest and on land. The construction of a photovoltaic system on the roof will be prescribed for new private buildings. Builders who completely renovate an old building, for example by renovating the roof, will also have to install a solar system in the future. In the future, the climate compatibility of all funding programs will be checked. In Baden-Württemberg there will be a “true climate laboratory city”. In the future, there will be fast-charging columns for cars with electric drives within a radius of five kilometers.
Commitment to identity policies
CDU state chairman Strobl said the CDU was “upright” in the coalition and that the second edition of Green-Black should become a “consensus coalition.” Regarding the content, there was agreement between the two parties on three-quarters of the issues that have now been negotiated. The exploratory work does not reveal the personal and content-related approach with which the CDU intends to distinguish itself in the future. Budgetary and security policy is mentioned, and the leader of the parliamentary group Reinhart also highlighted agreements to strengthen volunteerism. But it is questionable whether that will be enough for the CDU base.
There could also be conflicts between the Greens and the CDU on social policy. Introducing the exploratory document, Green State President Oliver Hildenbrand emphasized the will of his party and the future government to do justice to “diversity” in society in the future. Therefore, there will be a state law against discrimination. Hildenbrand, who is attached to the left, is also hiding behind the lawsuit and highlights a commitment to so-called identity politics, which is currently hotly debated within the Federal Green Party and the State Party.
Whether the second green-black coalition will perform better than the first will also depend on the allocation of departments: in the past there have been repeated disputes because there have been disputes over competencies between the Greens and the ministries led by the CDU. The Greens are reportedly discussing filling the Ministry of Agriculture and perhaps also the Ministry of Education with a Green Minister. The question of which party the Ministry of Finance can occupy should be interesting, it is a transversal ministry and is extremely relevant for political control together with the Ministry of State.
Hildenbrand and the leader of the Green parliamentary group Andreas Schwarz justified again why, from their point of view, a traffic light coalition with the SPD and the FDP would have been the worst solution: the FDP was not prepared to support clear regulatory measures in politics of climatic protection; there were also differences in pandemic politics. Coalition negotiations are due to conclude on May 8 and the election of the Prime Minister is scheduled for May 12.
