1 November 24, German Transitional Government Prime Minister Merkel took a bouquet of flowers from the Social Democratic Party Prime Minister candidate Scholz.
On November 24, Berlin time, the three parties of the German Social Democratic Party , the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party announced that they had reached a joint cabinet formation agreement.
On the afternoon of the same day, SPD candidate Prime Minister Scholz, two co-chairmen of the Green Party, Bell Burke and Habeck, Liberal Democratic Party Chairman Lindner, and two party chairmen of their party officially announced in an old warehouse in Westhafen, Berlin that the three parties had reached a joint cabinet formation agreement.
It is expected that in early December, the three parties will announce the nomination of SPD Scholz as the current German Chancellor.
After the new German Federal Parliament completes the process of electing the prime minister, the German President will appoint the elected prime minister. By then, Germany's first "traffic light" government (from the representative color of its respective parties) will make a brilliant debut.
Comparing the difficulties and difficult tasks of the German government's cabinet formation negotiations in 2017, compared with the possible protracted war in the three-party negotiations after the general election on September 26 this year, people generally expected that the three-party negotiations might be a protracted war. This result can be said to be unexpectedly smooth. Today, Germany does need to complete the alternation between new and old governments as soon as possible.
In Europe, the French and Italian leaders have just announced a cooperation agreement, which shows that , which has always been centered on the French-German alliance, may experience some subtle balance changes in the EU .
In Germany, the fourth wave of the epidemic rebounded retaliatoryly, with the highest daily average number of infections exceeding 60,000. It is urgently necessary for the new government to be quickly in place and deploy as soon as possible.
In a speech on Wednesday afternoon, Scholz focused on the new government's plan to curb the severe epidemic with decisive measures.
He first mentioned that he appointed a permanent crisis group in the federal and state governments; and formed an expert group composed of virus experts, epidemiologists, sociologists, psychologists, etc., to provide advice to the government.
Secondly, Scholz talked about promoting vaccination and strengthening injections with greater efforts, and even mentioned that under the current severe situation, the troops should be used to expand the work capacity and capacity of the vaccination center.
The third is to implement a 2G or 2G+ policy in public places, that is, only those who have been fully vaccinated or recovered can enter public places. If necessary, on-site nucleic acid testing must be added.
This reflects Scholz's consistent political philosophy of focusing on people's livelihood.
In terms of the coalition government, Scholz said that the first "traffic light" coalition government at the federal level was born, and he said that this government "would dare to make greater progress." Scholz also once again mentioned some of his important programs and commitments during the campaign, such as emphasizing climate protection, raising the minimum hourly wage to 12 euros, and building 400,000 new apartments each year to alleviate housing difficulties.
Belbourke, one of the heads of the Green Party, and Liberal Democratic Party Chairman Lindner also delivered speeches one after another. They mentioned that although the three parties have different views and different focus, what is valuable is that the three parties can sincerely find consensus and cooperate and complement each other. Second, it reiterates the focus of all parties. The Green Party stressed that Germany must take greater steps in climate protection. The Liberal Democratic Party emphasized that the fiscal system cannot be broken through and proposed to respond to the needs of citizens, especially the younger generation, to make Germany more modern in terms of network and digitalization, as well as infrastructure construction.
Author: Wenhui Daily reporter in Berlin Wang Beihua
Editor: Shen Qinhan
Picture: CNN
