Decisive week for Saxony-Anhalt's coalition begins

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Magdeburg / Berlin (dpa) - For Saxony-Anhalt's black-red-green coalition, a week begins with decisive decisions.

How things will continue in the deadlocked dispute over the vote on the State Treaty, which provides for an increase in broadcasting fees, will be the subject of parliamentary group meetings of the CDU (1 p.m.) and SPD (4 p.m.).

The coalition committee should then meet regularly on Tuesday morning.

An important preliminary decision is due on Wednesday when the state parliament's media committee votes on which vote it recommends for the vote in plenary a week later.

Like the AfD, the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt rejects the higher broadcasting fee.

Together they would have a majority in parliament.

Coalition partners SPD and Greens want the vote and also the plus for the public broadcasters.

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Greens parliamentary leader Cornelia Lüddemann spoke out on Sunday in favor of an approved vote: “We need a vote in the state parliament.

We need a situation where each member of parliament can express himself with his name and his voice and can act on this state treaty. "

That would give the moderates in the CDU parliamentary group the opportunity to vote for the State Treaty and to save the coalition.

Lüddemann emphasized: "We want this government, which stood as a bulwark against the right, to continue to govern this country so that this bulwark does not fall."

CDU, SPD and Greens have been ruling together since 2016.

If Saxony-Anhalt does not agree to the controversial state treaty and thus the contribution increase by 86 cents to 18.36 euros, it is overturned altogether.

All countries must agree by the end of the year.

In the event of a blockade in Saxony-Anhalt, it is expected that broadcasters will call the Federal Constitutional Court to sue for the adjustment calculated by an independent party.

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At the weekend, the SPD and the Greens on the one hand and the CDU on the other hand urged the respective counterpart to move within the coalition in Magdeburg.

A number of prime ministers made it clear that the state treaty was not renegotiable.

Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) criticized that the three coalition parties in Saxony-Anhalt had agreed something on the radio license item that was "absolutely impossible" and impossible to keep.

"The fact that three parties, against their better knowledge, write something like this in a coalition agreement and then bring this whole country and thus this institution of public broadcasting into problems - that, I think, is the real scandal," said Kretschmer on the ZDF broadcast «Berlin direct».

Hesse's Prime Minister and CDU Federal Vice-President Volker Bouffier stood behind Haseloff in the conflict over the CDU's position on the AfD.

«The attitude is clear ... There can be no cooperation with the AfD.

That's nothing new.

We represent that all the time, ”said Bouffier in the ARD program“ Report from Berlin ”.

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The party and parliamentary group leader of the Left in Thuringia, Susanne Hennig-Wellsow, said to the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt: “The fact that the AfD wants to undermine democracy with the means of democracy should everyone since February 5th at the latest knowledge."

At that time, the CDU parliamentary group in Thuringia elected the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich, who also became Prime Minister with the help of the AfD, but resigned after national pressure.

Parts of the CDU have not clarified their relationship with the AfD despite the “dam break in Erfurt” and are obviously open to the right, said Hennig-Wellsow of the “Rheinische Post” (Monday).

Meanwhile, it is also still open who will succeed Holger Stahlknecht as interior minister and party leader of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt.

Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) dismissed him on Friday in response to an unsettled interview in which Stahlknecht had spoken of the possibility of a minority government.

Haseloff had always ruled out such a variant.

Stahlknecht also announced his retirement as CDU country chief this Tuesday.

The executive board of the state discussed on Sunday the line-up at the top.

The vice-bosses, education minister Marco Tullner, ex-finance minister André Schröder and the member of the Bundestag Heike Brehmer are to take over the official business together with the general secretary Sven Schulze until further notice.

Tullner is said to be the “first contact person and authorized representative”, as a message from Sunday evening shows.

Tullner and Schulze are to represent the CDU in the coalition committee.

Should there be a coalition committee on the subject of the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty in the next few days, Schulze will represent the party.

"These regulations are intended to ensure that the CDU Saxony-Anhalt is capable of business and action until a new state executive is elected," it said.

Depending on the pandemic situation, it is considered to bring forward the state party conference planned for October 2, 2021 with the election of a new CDU state executive.

However, priority would be given to the state representative assemblies planned for January 30, 2021 to compile the state lists for the state and federal elections in 2021.

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