Daniel Peters, the CDU state chairman and lead candidate for the state election on September 20, considers a minority government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a viable option. According to the newspaper “Welt,” the 44-year-old said: “It’s not my preferred model; stable coalitions are usually more reliable. But we need more parliamentary pragmatism in Germany.” He noted that in Scandinavia, “minority governments have been working calmly for years.”
The background is a resolution by the CDU’s federal party congress that rules out coalitions with the Left Party and the AfD. If the election does not yield a majority government without these two parties, a minority government would be an alternative. According to an Infratest-dimap poll commissioned by NDR in May, the CDU stands at ten percent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – behind the AfD (36 percent), SPD (27 percent), and Left Party (13 percent). The BSW reaches five percent, the Greens four percent, and the FDP is below the threshold of perception.
Source: www.zeit.de
