Cabinet Scholz
Cabinet Scholz | |
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25. Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany | |
Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
choice | 2021 |
Legislative period | 20th |
Appointed by | Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
education | December 8, 2021 |
length of time | 0 years and 2 days |
predecessor | Merkel IV cabinet |
composition | |
Party (s) | SPD, Greens, FDP |
minister | 16 |
representation | |
German Bundestag | 416/736 |
Opposition leader | Ralph Brinkhaus ( CDU / CSU ) |
The Scholz cabinet is the 25th federal government of the Federal Republic of Germany . It met on December 8, 2021 after Olaf Scholz was elected Federal Chancellor .
Government formation
The 20th German Bundestag , elected on September 26, 2021, was constituted on October 26, 2021. Negotiations for a possible traffic light coalition were concluded on November 24, 2021 and resulted in a joint coalition agreement .
As the first of the three coalition partners, the SPD approved the future cooperation with 98.8% at a party congress on December 4, 2021. On December 5, the FDP's decision followed at a digital party congress (where 92% of the delegates voted for the coalition agreement) and by the end of the ballot on December 6, 86% of the Greens voted in favor of the agreement. The following day the three parties signed the coalition agreement.
Olaf Scholz was elected Chancellor by the 20th German Bundestag on December 8, 2021 with a majority of 395 votes, 303 votes against and six abstentions. A total of 707 of the 736 MPs cast their votes, three of them invalid. He then accepted the certificate of appointment from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and proposed his federal ministers to him. Then he was sworn in on the Basic Law by the President of the Bundestag in the plenary hall. The ministers then received their certificates of appointment from the Federal President and were then sworn in individually in the Bundestag by Bundestag President Bärbel Bas .
Political party | Party chairperson | Political orientation | European party / group | |
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Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD, 206 seats) |
Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken |
Social democracy , European federalism |
SPE / S&D | |
Alliance 90 / The Greens (Greens, 118 seats) |
Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck |
Green politics , left-wing liberalism , European federalism |
EGP / Greens / EFA | |
Free Democratic Party (FDP, 92 seats) |
Christian Lindner |
Liberalism , economic liberalism , European federalism |
ALDE / Renew Europe |
Cabinet and State Secretaries
The layout of the cabinet and, in particular, the distribution of the departments were presented at the presentation of the coalition agreement on November 24, 2021. The area of "Construction and Housing" was spun off from the Ministry of the Interior into a separate ministry and the area of "Consumer Protection" was moved from justice to the environment. This means that there are 16 ministers instead of the previous 15. In addition, the Federal Chancellor's Minister of State for Culture will be occupied by the Greens, despite the Social Democratic Chancellor.
FDP and Greens nominated ministers from their ranks on November 24th and 25th, 2021. The SPD published its list of ministers after the approval of its delegates to the coalition agreement in a press conference on December 6th.
In addition to the Federal Chancellor, eight ministers were included in the nominations. At the level of state secretaries and state ministers, 19 women and 18 men are envisaged. In total, the federal government should include state ministers and state secretaries 27 women and 27 men (SPD: 13 women, 11 men; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen: 11 women, 7 men; FDP: 3 women, 9 men).
According to Article 62 of the Basic Law , the Federal Government consists of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Ministers . The parliamentary state secretaries , the permanent state secretaries and the state ministers as well as the representatives of the federal government are not members of the government. They support the work of the Federal Chancellor and the respective Federal Ministers and partially represent them.
Remarks
- ↑ Neither parliamentary state secretaries nor state ministers are part of the federal government according to Art. 62 GG .
- ↑ As a "specially designated Federal Minister", heads cabinet meetings when the Federal Chancellor and Vice Chancellor are prevented from attending.
Further personal details
The traffic light coalition agreed that the Greens may name the next German EU Commissioner , unless the Commission President is from Germany.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Ismar: SPD, Greens and FDP agree - surprises when ministries are awarded. In: tagesspiegel.de . November 24, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Peter Carstens: "We are all up for this coalition". In: FAZ.net . December 4, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ The traffic light government stands: Greens vote for coalition with SPD and FDP. In: The mirror . December 6, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Traffic light coalition: "Now the time for action begins". In: zeit.de . December 7, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Scholz elected Chancellor. In: Tagesschau. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, December 8, 2021, accessed on December 8, 2021 .
- ↑ The Scholz cabinet is in office. In: zeit.de. Retrieved December 8, 2021 .
- ↑ The wording of the coalition agreement of the traffic light parties: The SPD, Greens and FDP have agreed on this. In: The mirror . November 24, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Anna Ernst: Ampel: Özdemir becomes Minister of Agriculture. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 25, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ^ FDP federal executive committee welcomes coalition agreement / proposal for staffing of the FDP departments - press release. In: crm.fdp.de. November 24, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Green Ministries: Özdemir is to become Minister of Agriculture. In: tagesschau.de. November 30, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Sophia Rockenmaier: SPD Minister: Karl Lauterbach is health minister. In: zdf.de. December 6, 2021, accessed December 7, 2021 .
- ↑ Markus Peters: That's what Sarah Ryglewski says about her move to the Federal Chancellery - WESER-KURIER. December 7, 2021, accessed December 8, 2021 .