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Status: 11/24/2021 1:30 p.m.
According to media reports, FDP boss Lindner will become finance minister of the new government coalition. Vice Chancellor is apparently Greens co-boss Habeck. All developments in the live blog.
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Media reports: Habeck new Vice Chancellor
Greens co-party leader Robert Habeck is apparently Vice Chancellor of the new federal government. Several media reports unanimously. In addition, Habeck is to head the Ministry of Climate and Economics. The Foreign Ministry goes to his party colleague Annalena Baerbock. As head of the Chancellery, Scholz’s confidante Wolfgang Schmidt is considered to have been set.
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Finance department goes to the FDP
In the new federal government planned by the SPD, Greens and FDP under a Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), the Social Democrats can, according to the ARD capital studios Occupy seven ministerial posts, including the newly created Ministry of Building and Housing. The finance ministry will be occupied by the FDP, which should clear the way for FDP leader Christian Lindner in this post. The Greens received the Ministry of Climate Protection and Economics as well as the Foreign Office. The two Green Party leaders, Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, are favorites for these ministerial posts.
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Greens occupy climate and foreign ministries, FDP transport
In a future traffic light government, the SPD should, according to information from ARD capital studios in addition to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, six ministries, the Greens five and the FDP four. Accordingly, the Greens occupy a newly created Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the areas of Environment / Consumers, Agriculture / Food and Family. According to information from the FDP ARD capital studios the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Justice. The SPD takes over the interior department, the defense ministry, a newly created building ministry, the health department, the ministry for labor and social affairs and the ministry for economic cooperation. The SPD is also to provide the minister of the Chancellery.
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Traffic light coalition wants to get into share retirement
The SPD, FDP and Greens want to get a supplementary share pension for old-age pensions. This partial funding should be professionally and seriously managed as a permanent fund by an independent public body, says a person familiar with the draft of the coalition agreement to the Reuters news agency. The future coalition partners have also agreed to secure the pension level and to exclude pension cuts and raising the retirement age.