The SPD, Left and Greens have approved their coalition agreement in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. That moves the red-red-green project beyond negotiations: all three parties have now cleared their internal approval process. But a new state government still depends on two formal steps, the planned signing on Friday evening and Manuela Schwesig’s re-election vote in the state parliament on Monday.
Der Spiegel reported that the SPD approved the agreement unanimously at a special party conference in Güstrow, after the Left and Greens had already backed it. The agreement was scheduled to be signed in Greifswald that evening. Schwesig, who has led the state government since 2017, intends to stand for re-election in parliament.
The coalition has a workable numerical basis. The three parties hold 39 of the 71 seats in the state parliament, while the AfD, the only opposition party, has 32. That makes Schwesig’s re-election likely, but it does not replace the parliamentary vote. The previous SPD-Left government lost its governing majority in the 20 September state election, so the new three-party arrangement depends on maintaining parliamentary unity.
The agreement sets out broad aims, including hospital modernisation, free childcare, less bureaucracy and greater participation for residents near wind and solar projects. Those are coalition commitments, not policies already in force. Funding, legislation and delivery will be the real test of whether the parties’ agreement can become durable government action.
The immediate development is substantial but specific: the parties have committed themselves to a shared governing programme. The state parliament will decide on Monday whether that programme also produces a renewed Schwesig-led government.
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- Der Spiegel · Source date: 2026-11-14
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