Summary: Red-Green-Red is focusing on more new buildings and more climate protection
With more New building, more action on Climate protection, better offers in Local public transport and greater investment in a functioning one administration want to advance the SPD, the Greens and the Left Berlin in the next five years. After five weeks of sometimes lengthy negotiations, the three parties who want to continue to govern together in the capital presented their coalition agreement in the House of Representatives on Monday. He bears the title “Berlin, the capital of the future. Social. Ecological, diverse. Economically strong “.
SPD state chairwoman Franziska Giffey announced that she had got one compensation between the inner city and the outskirts, between employers and employees, between pedestrians, cyclists and users of local public transport. “We want us to do a job that makes Berliners proud of their city,” she said. Berlin has to go at the same time to distinguish itself as a competitive metropolis.
Among other things, the coalition wants to join the planned new government Alliance for new residential construction and affordable housing with municipal and private housing companies and cooperatives. According to the coalition agreement, new residential construction is to be advanced “with the highest priority”. Are provided 20,000 new homes per year over a period of ten years.
To the Expropriation of large housing companies In Berlin the three parties have decided to set up a Expert Commission agreed. It should examine the prerequisites and possibilities for the implementation of the successful referendum and submit a recommendation on how to proceed after one year. Giffey also announced the To improve the situation in the citizens’ offices, in which Berliners recently often had to wait weeks for appointments.
According to the will of the three parties, significant progress should also be made in the expansion of local transport. These include the Extension of several underground lines such as the U3 to Mexikoplatz and the U7 to BER Airport. the E-bus fleet is to be expanded. New Tram and bus connections to the outskirts and the surrounding area are provided as well as new ones Cycle superhighways.
Green party leader Bettina Jarasch announced that it should in future higher parking fees and a mandatory guest ticket as additional sources of income to help finance the expansion of local transport. A general city toll, as discussed before the election, is not provided.
Climate protection should become a cross-sectional task for all Senate administrations. Several funding and investment programs for solar systems should make it possible to cover a quarter of the capital’s electricity needs in this way by 2035. The Coal exit in Berlin, the coalition wants according to the contract “If possible before 2030” realize.
Left chairwoman Katina Schubert said that The coalition agreement also has left handwriting. New residential construction and rent regulation are particularly important to your party.
The coalition negotiations of the three parties that have ruled Berlin together since 2016 began on October 22nd. During the talks, the SPD, the Greens and the Left had already presented a number of points in the planned government program. The party committees and the members of the left still have to agree to this before the new Senate can start work. If that happened, Giffey wants to go to the 21st December in the House of Representatives be elected mayoress. (dpa)
