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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Greens and CDU have completed their preparations for the upcoming coalition negotiations in Baden-Württemberg and have occupied the specialist groups.
"It's time for a starting shot," said the Greens state chairman Oliver Hildenbrand on Tuesday in Stuttgart.
From Tuesday next week, the twelve green-black working groups of the designated coalition partners will formally meet.
A few days later, the negotiators will take a look at their cards for the first time and publish an interim result.
On May 12, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) wants to be elected head of government for the third time.
In addition to ministers, party leaders and state secretaries, the Tübingen emergency doctor and pandemic officer Lisa Federle will also take part in the talks in one of the groups.
She is part of the CDU team in the “Health and Social Affairs” working group.
"We are well positioned and highly motivated," said the CDU state chairman and interior minister Thomas Strobl on Tuesday.
He stressed that the exploratory paper that had been agreed upon was non-negotiable and "a binding foundation on which we can build for his party".
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As the winner of the state elections in mid-March, the Greens decided to continue to govern with the clearly weakened CDU.
The heads of both parties then agreed on a seven-page paper that should serve as the basis for the coalition negotiations.
It says, among other things, that the Greens and the CDU want to hold on to the debt brake.
The Union also accommodated the eco-party on a number of important issues in climate, transport and asylum policy.
Further points in the paper: an immediate program for climate protection, among other things with up to 1000 new wind turbines, compulsory solar power for house builders, a change in the right to vote in order to bring more women into parliament, and a local transport tax for municipalities.
Due to the Corona crisis, Grün-Schwarz took on new debts of EUR 13.5 billion in the 2020/2021 double budget.
In addition, the tax sources are no longer gushing.
The new coalition also has to tackle the Altschuldenberg, which has grown to 58.5 billion euros.
Kretschmann is counting on the economy picking up again after the crisis.
But in view of the debt brake requirement, empty coffers and a mountain of pandemic debt, political initiatives for the new government are likely to become a Herculean task.
Strobl further rules out tax increases.
The reduction in the property transfer tax sought by the Union will not come either, he confirmed on Tuesday.
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"We have these numbers in our heads and in our hearts," assured the Greens state chairwoman Sandra Detzer.
"We keep an eye on the budget and it won't strangle us."
The upcoming working groups will be led by, among others, Detzer and Hildenbrand, parliamentary group leader Andreas Schwarz and finance minister Edith Sitzmann, health minister Manne Lucha and member of the state parliament Andre Baumann (all Greens).
For the CDU, General Secretary Manuel Hagel, parliamentary group leader Wolfgang Reinhart, parliamentary group deputy Nicole Razavi and Sigmaringen district administrator Stefanie Bürkle sit in the specialist groups.
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