Kassel (dpa/lhe) – After the failure of the red-green city hall coalition in Kassel in the summer, the Greens, CDU and FDP have now presented a coalition agreement. The parties announced on Wednesday that their coalition negotiations had been successful. “The three negotiating partners have drawn up a coalition agreement, which all three parties will submit to their general meetings for voting,” it said.
The coalition of SPD and Greens had already burst in June. Months of internal party disputes among the Social Democrats in Kassel followed. After the party had initially started coalition talks with the CDU, the majority later decided to break them off – against the will of SPD Mayor Christian Geselle. Geselle then announced that he no longer wanted to run as an SPD candidate in the mayoral election, which is expected to take place in March 2023, but as an independent candidate.
With Isabel Carqueville, the SPD is now putting its own candidate into the running. Hesse’s former justice minister, Eva Kühne-Hörmann, has been nominated for the CDU. Sven Schoeller (Green Party) and Violetta Bock (Left Party) also want to move into Kassel City Hall.
