Junior housing ministers have yet to be formally given any ministerial powers

Junior housing ministers have yet to be formally given any ministerial powers

Three ministers of state have been given their respective responsibilities but not powers to legislate.

The negotiations for a black and red coalition are progressing. Saxony's Prime Minister now demands that more East Germans are represented in the cabinet. In dealing with the AfD, the CDU politician has a council.

In the Bundestag election, the East German Landers were blue-coloured. Is there soon the first AfD head of government? What the Saxon Prime Minister Schwarz-Rot proposes as a counter-recipient.

As long as living conditions in East and West differ noticeably, the representation of interests in East is urgently required. Even without unresolved questions of unity, it would not be a presumptive demand, Wolfgang Hübner says.

The coalition agreement does not provide for the introduction of a cadastral tax, but the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, "privately" believes that such a tax should apply to owners of at least three apartments.

Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer calls for several East German ministers in the new black and red Federal Cabinet. What names are mentioned for this – and what they have to bring as a prerequisite.