In the end, Daniel Günther has to make a choice.

She falls on the greens.

On Monday evening, the Prime Minister of the CDU will appear in front of the press in Kiel, after his state board has just given advice.

He announces that he will invite the Greens to talks about forming a black-green state government.

Only a few minutes later, the Greens responded and announced that they were happy to accept the invitation.

We are happy about the decision.

The first interview is scheduled to take place on Tuesday.

Matthias Wysuwa

Political correspondent for northern Germany and Scandinavia based in Hamburg.

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A good two weeks after the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, it is clear who will govern in the north-west in the future.

It is true that there is still a long way to go in Kiel from the invitation to the exploratory talks to the signing of the coalition agreement.

But in the past few days, the Greens have left no doubt about their will to continue governing with the CDU.

Even if they felt compelled to let Günther's first coalition wish burst.

True to his party's election slogan

Because Günther had initially tried to continue his previous Jamaica alliance.

Since 2017, the CDU, Greens and FDP have governed together in Kiel, and according to a large majority of people in the country, they did so quite successfully.

In surveys, the coalition's satisfaction ratings were as high as the prime minister's popularity ratings.

In the state elections, however, only the CDU and the Greens were able to benefit from this, while the FDP collapsed: the CDU came to 43.4 percent, the Greens to 18.3 and the FDP only to 6.4 percent.

So it was clear that the CDU would be enough to have just one partner to govern in the future.

With the Greens, he would get 48 out of 69 seats in the state parliament.

Günther, however, decided not to make a decision for a party for the time being - and made the continuation of Jamaica his goal.

True to his party's election slogan: stay the course.

He cited the popularity of the coalition as a reason and how they managed to reconcile economy and ecology.

The party supported its prime minister, even at the price that in the end there might be fewer ministerial posts for the CDU than actually possible.

After the electoral defeat, the FDP quickly suppressed statements from the election campaign that ruled out an alliance in which one was not really needed, and the Greens, too, are reluctant to present themselves, but agreed to at least talk about it.

Nevertheless, this path led nowhere.

The distance between the Greens and the FDP was already great in 2017, but they pulled themselves together because there was no other way at the time.

But now things are different.

So on Thursday evening it was over with Jamaica – after joint explorations by the three parties, the Greens made it clear that they saw no basis for the continuation of the alliance.

There are new majorities.

It was found, said Monika Heinold, the party's top candidate, "that there is no common basis for the next five years in an alliance in which a partner is not needed." can't go on like this.

The Greens also made it clear that they want to govern with the CDU.

Just alone.

In addition to the CDU, the party sees itself as the election winner and derives from this the self-image that it will continue to govern in the future.

The party's claims are particularly high when it comes to the energy transition and the climate goals, and there are likely to be a few more hurdles to be overcome in future talks with the CDU.

The FDP, on the other hand, didn't help that they had campaigned for themselves and black and yellow at a small party conference on Sunday.

An attempt was made to make the CDU an offer with a paper focusing on infrastructure, economic development and the strengthening of small and medium-sized enterprises.

And with the argument that Günther could stay the course with the FDP, and that the Greens stand for a completely different policy.