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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 Media Treaty, which provides for an increase in broadcasting contributions, will be the subject of parliamentary group meetings of the CDU and SPD.

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.

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.

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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.

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 cannot be renegotiated.

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) had fired him on Friday in response to an unsolicited 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.