{
  "id": 19858051,
  "title": "Endspurt für neue Regierung: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Linke stimmt Koalitionsvertrag zu",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/endspurt-fur-neue-regierung-mecklenburg-vorpommern-linke-stimmt",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-13T19:58:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/endspurt-fuer-neue-regierung-mecklenburg-vorpommern-linke-stimmt-koalitionsvertrag-zu/100269810.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "The first step towards approving the coalition agreement in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been taken: The Left party has approved the agreement at a party meeting. The proposal received a large majority of the 84 delegates - with 7 abstentions. Land party president Hennis Herbst had asked his comrades to approve the contract, \"not because it is perfect, but because we can achieve concrete improvements\". The decision came after a general debate at 8:30 PM. Prior to the vote, delegates had criticized the agreement, for example the loss of the education ministry. \"We have had a hard election night\", admitted Herbst at the party meeting. Therefore, not everything that the party had hoped for would be enforceable. The Left party achieved 6.5 percent at the state elections - a significant loss compared to 2021 (9.9 percent). It is no secret that their party did not agree on all issues with the SPD and Greens, but the Left has insisted on its resistance against militarization. No public funds will be allocated for the construction of warships. The Left sees social policy as a central pillar of their DNA \"The agreement allows us to take responsibility in central areas\", said Herbst. Social, work and health are significant issues of leftist politics. Co-Bundesvorsitzende Ines Schwerdtner had previously encouraged her party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to approve the coalition agreement with the SPD and Greens via video link. She praised the Left's negotiation skills as successful. \"You can be happy that there will again be two ministries, that you have pulled so much\", said Schwerdtner. Two ministers are to be introduced. Kerstin Mieth will take over the Ministry for Social Affairs, Work and Health. The diplom- administration specialist was a senior official for Social Affairs in Berlin, later business manager of Volkssolidarität in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, before she moved to the state government six years ago. There, she worked as a department leader in the Social Ministry and later as deputy government spokesperson. Social affairs is her specialty, said Mieth to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. This is also what motivated her to offer her services as a minister. Michael Noetzel will head the Justice Ministry. Noetzel is not only a well-known lawyer, but also a fierce opponent of right-wing extremism, Herbst told the delegates in introducing the candidate. The native Rostocker led the legal committee of the state parliament from 2021 to 2026 and also oversaw the investigation committee for the right-wing extremist terror group NSU. Although a ban on the AfD is not part of the coalition agreement, the state government will advocate for it at federal level, he promised the delegates. Agreement from SPD and Greens still needed After the Left, the SPD and the Greens must vote on the coalition agreement at separate party meetings. The SPD convenes on Saturday in Güstrow, the Greens meet simultaneously in Stralsund. If the bases of the three parties endorse the paper, the agreement will be signed on Saturday evening in the Pomeranian Landesmuseum in Greifswald. Chancellor Manuela Schwesig (SPD) will stand for re-election in the Landtag on Monday. Negotiations and lobbying took a little more than six weeks. Thus, politics in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is considerably faster than in Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt, where elections were also held in September, but no governments are in sight yet.",
  "summary": "In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern steht die Regierungsbildung kurz vor dem Abschluss. Nun müssen die Parteien dem Koalitionsvertrag zustimmen. Die Linke hat auf einem Parteitag als erste Partei entschieden.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}