The Saxon CDU/CSU will vote on the coalition agreement to form a minority government with the SPD in Dresden on Saturday (10.00). 240 Christian Democrats have been invited to the special party conference. The 110-page agreement has been negotiated since mid-November and was presented at the beginning of December. The SPD is allowing its members to vote by postal ballot. The result should be known on Monday.
In the state elections on September 1, the CDU was the strongest party in Saxony with 31.9 percent of the vote, ahead of the AfD (30.6 percent). As the CDU categorically ruled out an alliance with the AfD and the Left Party, the only option for a majority government was an alliance between the CDU, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) and the SPD. However, the so-called Brombeer coalition failed during the exploratory phase.
