Laschet cabinet

Laschet cabinet
24. State government of North Rhine-Westphalia
Prime Minister	Armin Laschet
choice	2017
Legislative period	17th
education	June 30, 2017
Duration	3 years and 63 days
predecessor	Cabinet Kraft II
composition
Party (s)	CDU and FDP
minister	12
State Secretaries	13
representation
Parliament	100/199
Opposition leader	Norbert Römer ( SPD ) until April 24, 2018 Thomas Kutschaty ( SPD ) from April 24, 2018

The Laschet cabinet designates the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia under Prime Minister Armin Laschet . After the state elections on May 14, 2017, the CDU and FDP formed a black-yellow coalition . It has exactly one vote majority in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament .

The coalition agreement was presented on June 16, 2017. Laschet was elected Prime Minister on June 27, 2017. On June 30, 2017, the cabinet ministers were sworn in and the state secretaries appointed. The State Secretary and Head of Office in the Ministry for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration Andreas Bothe was only appointed on July 6, 2017.

Ruling parties

The government consists of the following parties.

Political party		Party leader	Political orientation	European party / group
	Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)	Armin Laschet	Christian democracy , conservatism , economic liberalism	EPP / EPP
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	Joachim Stamp	liberalism	ALDE / Renew

cabinet

The cabinet consists of the following ministers:

Office or department	image	Incumbent	Political party		image	State Secretary	Political party
Prime Minister (since August 31, 2017: also responsible for media ) State Chancellery		Armin Laschet		CDU		Nathanael Liminski (Head of the State Chancellery)		CDU
						Andrea Milz (sport and volunteer work)		CDU
Deputy Prime Minister Children, family, refugees and integration		Joachim Stamp		FDP		Andreas Bothe (Head of Office)		FDP
						Serap Guler (integration)		CDU
Finances		Lutz Lienenkamper		CDU		Patrick Opdenhövel		CDU
Interior		Herbert Reul		CDU		Jürgen Mathies		independent
Economy, innovation, digitization and energy		Andreas Pinkwart		FDP		Christoph Dammermann		FDP
Work, health and social affairs		Karl-Josef Laumann		CDU		Edmund Heller		CDU
school and education		Yvonne Gebauer		FDP		Mathias Richter		FDP
Home, Communal, Construction and Equality		Ina Scharrenbach		CDU		Jan Heinisch		CDU
Judiciary		Peter Biesenbach		CDU		Dirk Wedel		FDP
traffic		Hendrik Wüst		CDU		Hendrik Schulte		independent
Environment, agriculture, nature and consumer protection		Christina Schulze Föcking (until May 15, 2018) Ursula Heinen-Esser (from May 24, 2018)		CDU		Heinrich Bottermann		CDU
Culture and science		Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen		independent		Annette Storsberg		CDU
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture and Science		Klaus Kaiser		CDU
Federal and European affairs, international affairs and media (until August 31, 2017) Federal and European affairs as well as international affairs (since August 31, 2017)		Stephan Holthoff porter		CDU		Mark Speicher		CDU

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Striewski: Black and yellow coalition agreement for NRW presented by CDU and FDP . June 16, 2017 ( wdr.de ).
2. ↑ This is the new state government . June 29, 2017 ( wdr.de ).
3. ↑ New state secretaries appointed | The state portal Wir in NRW. June 30, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Prime Minister Armin Laschet appoints Andreas Bothe as State Secretary in the Ministry for Children, Family, Refugees and Integration. July 16, 2017. Retrieved July 7, 2017 . 
5. ↑ According to the state constitution, state secretaries are not members of the government.
6. ↑ Dr. Mark Speich becomes the new State Secretary at the Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs and the Media. Retrieved March 12, 2018 . 

Web links

• Official website of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia