The adherents of the Greens in Germany approved by a large majority, Monday, December 6, the participation of the environmentalist formation in a government coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Liberal Party (FDP), with Olaf Scholz as chancellor.

The coalition agreement was validated by 86% of the 71,000 Green members who took part in the vote.

It has already been endorsed last week by members of the SPD and those of the FDP.

Official signing of the agreement on Tuesday

A little over two months after winning the legislative elections at the end of September, Olaf Scholz will therefore be elected by the Bundestag at the head of an unprecedented three-party coalition, formed much faster than expected, by the Social Democrats of the SPD with the Greens and the Liberals.

The three parties, called on to govern together for the next four years, will officially sign this agreement on Tuesday and then the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, should appoint the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz as chancellor on Wednesday.

The handover with Angela Merkel, who will see the center-left return to the helm of the country for the first time since Gerhard Schröder, will take place on Wednesday in the wake of the vote.

For the first time, a parity government will then take office, with women appointed to key ministerial positions such as Foreign Affairs, the Interior or Defense.

New momentum

"I am particularly proud that women are now at the head of ministries for which it is not traditional" for them to be occupied by women, greeted Monday Olaf Scholz, who has long asserted himself as a feminist.

Despite the unabated popularity of Angela Merkel after four terms, Olaf Scholz, who willingly presents himself as his heir, intends to give new impetus.

Infographic Merkel © Graphic Studio France Media World

"I want the 2020s to be those of a new beginning," he said in the weekly Die Zeit, saying he wanted to implement "the greatest industrial modernization" in recent history "capable of stopping man-made climate change ".

His government is also promising a very pro-EU policy aimed at "increasing the strategic sovereignty of the European Union" and better defending "common European interests".

With Reuters and AFP

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