North Rhine-Westphalia: First black-green cabinet in NRW is sworn in

Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - One and a half months after the state elections, the final act in the formation of the first black-green state government in North Rhine-Westphalia is on Wednesday (from 1 p.

North Rhine-Westphalia: First black-green cabinet in NRW is sworn in

Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - One and a half months after the state elections, the final act in the formation of the first black-green state government in North Rhine-Westphalia is on Wednesday (from 1 p.m.). The freshly re-elected Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) presented his future twelve ministers with their certificates of appointment in the Ständehaus in Düsseldorf. The cabinet members will then be sworn in in the state parliament (2 p.m.).

According to the coalition agreement, the Greens will have four ministries and have already named their top staff. The CDU receives eight ministerial posts - Wüst kept the names and layout of the departments secret until the end. Only shortly before the ministers are appointed does he want to reveal the secret in a press statement (12 p.m.).

The Greens' top candidate, Mona Neubaur, will become the new Vice Prime Minister. The 44-year-old will become Minister for Economics, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy. Minister for Transport, Environment and Nature Conservation will be the current Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics, Oliver Krischer.

The previous leader of the Greens, Josefine Paul, is to become Minister for Family, Children and Youth, Gender Equality, Integration and Flight. Benjamin Limbach, previously President of the Federal University for Public Administration, is to become Minister of Justice.

Among other things, the Ministries of the Interior, Health, Finance and Schools go to the CDU. It is awaited with particular excitement who Wüst appoints to head the Ministry of Education.