Members of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party have narrowly approved a local coalition deal in Berlin with Germany's main center-right opposition party, a decision which should pave the way for the capital's first conservative mayor in more than two decades.
The Social Democrats' Berlin branch said Sunday that 54.3 per cent of members who voted in a ballot backed the agreement. A convention of the center-right Christian Democratic Union is expected to approve it on Monday, the last step before Christian Democrat Kai Wegner can seek election as mayor by the state legislature.
Outgoing Mayor Franziska Giffey's center-left Social Democrats have led Berlin since 2001. They took much of the blame for the 2021 election chaos. Many Berliners also are angry over rising housing costs and that the city in recent years has had a dysfunctional bureaucracy, by German standards, in which getting basic paperwork done often entails lengthy waits.
But Giffey, a former federal minister who became mayor in December 2021, said that the new beginning voters wanted wasn't possible with a rerun of the outgoing coalition and her party risked doing even worse at the next election if it carried on.
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