The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), The Left and The Greens have given their approval to a coalition pact to govern the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania following elections held on September 20 of last year.
The agreed text, of 133 pages, was endorsed this Saturday by a large majority in both the SPD and The Greens, while The Left had already given its backing on the afternoon of Friday.
The agreement is scheduled to be signed this same afternoon at the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald, which will allow the social democrat Manuela Schwesig, one of the most prominent figures of the center-left formation, to once again head the regional Executive. Her re-election will be confirmed next Monday in the state parliament.
The understanding among the three parties comes after six weeks of talks, a relatively brief period when compared with the duration of negotiations in other states such as Berlin or Saxony-Anhalt, which also held elections on the same day.
In those elections, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party placed as the most-voted force in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.3% of the votes, ahead of the SPD, which obtained 35.4%. Further behind was The Left, the third political force with 6.5%, while The Greens reached 5.5%.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) ended with 4.9%, the same percentage as BSW (4.9%), so both parties were left out of the regional parliament for not exceeding the minimum threshold of 5% set by electoral legislation.