(Adnkronos) – Cem Ozdemir firmly rejects the proposal of a shared leadership between his ecological party and the CDU at the top of the Baden-Wuerttemberg government, the day after the vote that saw the ecologists assert themselves with 30.2% of the preferences against 29.7% of the Christian Democrats in the elections for the renewal of the Landtag, the regional parliament of Stuttgart.
The two parties should obtain the same number of seats in parliament, and if the Christian Democratic Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for “balance” in the next coalition agreement and in the future government of the southwestern German state, Jens Spahn, an important conservative exponent and ally of Merz, has suggested that the parties could share leadership, proposing the adoption of the so-called Israeli rotation model, in which a political representative of the majority automatically assumes the functions of the head of government, succeeding the one initially designated at a predetermined moment of the legislature.
“We will certainly not form a dual leadership. We are adults and we do adult politics. The situation is simply too serious for any kind of nonsense,” Ozdemir cut short.
Merz’s conservative party had been leading in the polls for months, but lost ground at the last minute after a strong comeback by the Greens, whose prime ministerial candidate is expected to become the first head of a German regional government of Turkish origin. Yesterday’s vote result made the extension of the Green-Black coalition (Greens – CDU) in the regional government of Stuttgart almost certain.
