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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - FDP top candidate Hans-Ulrich Rülke has agreed to vote for a successor to Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann after forming a traffic light coalition and to continue the alliance with the Greens and the SPD.

"If you should conclude a coalition agreement, you make it to the content and not to the staff," said the FDP parliamentary group leader of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (Wednesday).

«So there is no reason for us not to continue the coalition with a Prime Minister Andreas Schwarz.

Government participation in Baden-Württemberg would be a good signal on the way to government participation in the federal government. "

Rülke went on to say that the chances for the FDP to enter a government with the Greens and the SPD after the state elections on March 14th were "extremely realistic and palpable."

However, the 72-year-old Kretschmann has always emphasized that he will run for five years.

In addition, it is still far from certain whether there will be a traffic light after the election.

The SPD is still hoping for a green-red edition.

Should this not be enough, the Social Democrats would also be ready for a traffic light.

Kretschmann is currently governing with a green-black coalition.

He also did not rule out a continuation of this alliance.

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Most recently, Kretschmann had pointed out that many Prime Ministers in Baden-Württemberg had often previously been parliamentary group leaders of the ruling party.

The current leader of the Greens in the state parliament is Andreas Schwarz.

Rülke said: "I have an excellent working relationship with the Green parliamentary group chairman and also an extremely good personal relationship."

In forming a traffic light coalition, some “sticking points” would have to be resolved, for example in education policy.

But he sees little chance of winning at the CDU.

“At the moment these are manageable at the CDU with its top candidate Susanne Eisenmann.

But the CDU is a Christian party, believing in miracles and saints is part of the 2000-year tradition of Christianity. "

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