At the special party congress he also promoted the recently adopted corona measures: “The path to normality, it is in your hands.”
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Berlin The FDP has accepted the coalition agreement with the SPD and the Greens with a large majority. At a digital party congress on Sunday there were 535 votes in favor, 37 against and 8 abstentions for the 177-page paper for the formation of the first traffic light government at the federal level. The FDP calculated an approval rate of 92.24 percent.
FDP leader Christian Lindner praised the coalition agreement with the SPD and the Greens as a “policy of awakening”. The traffic light parties had concluded a contract “which will not move our country to the left, but will lead it forward,” said Lindner at the special party conference of the Liberals on Sunday in Berlin. Lindner referred to criticism from the political left and the right and concluded that it was a “coalition agreement between the center”.
The SPD had approved the contract at a party conference on Saturday with 98.8 percent. The Greens have organized a member survey, the result of which will be announced on Monday. If everything goes well, SPD candidate Olaf Scholz could be elected as the new Chancellor and successor to Angela Merkel by the German Bundestag on Wednesday as planned.
Linder is to become finance minister. With the previous party leader Robert Habeck as minister, the Greens will have a new climate and economy department, in which the ambitious plans of the Ampel coalition for climate protection will be significantly controlled. It is still unclear who will be the new Minister of Health. The department will in future be led by the SPD. Scholz wants to announce the change on Monday.
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