Germany’s Green party will make its debut in power this May as part of a coalition with the Social Democrats in one of the country’s south-western states.
The centre-left Social Democrat party SPD reportedly signed an agreement with the Greens this week after beating the conservative party for the rein in Baden-Wuerttemberg in March.
Green party politician Winfried Kretschmann will be the party’s first member to lead a German state.
The change follows 58 years of control by the Christian Democrats in the state.
The Green party will have a greater share of power in the state as it led the votes by one percentile point.
Kretschmann said he hopes the coalition seat will become a model for other states in the country, according to reports.
Concerns over nuclear power are thought to have prompted the switch to green leadership. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has until now supported nuclear power, but put a moratorium on seven nuclear plants following radiation leaks at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
The newly-found power in the hands of the Greens could signal a step-change away from nuclear power in the rest of the country.
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