Kassel (dpa / lhe) - Kassel is heading towards a Jamaica alliance. After the failure of the red-green town hall coalition in the northern Hessian city, the Greens, CDU and FDP want to form a coalition there for the first time. The general meetings of the three parties voted for a corresponding contract, the Greens, CDU and FDP announced on Saturday evening. The coalition agreement should therefore be signed on December 20th.
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.
The SPD is now running its own candidate, Isabel Carqueville. 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.
