Traffic light coalition: Greens and FDP • Table.Briefings

After years in the opposition, the Greens and the FDP are on the verge of taking back government benches. The fight over ministerial posts is already in full swing. However, the real problem only begins in the ranks after that: Both parties are short of staff – which is why they now have to come up with new strategies.

Everyone is looking at the ministerial line-up. Naturally, because their appointments are complicated enough: Self-imposed requirements such as the female quota, but also power relations and regional proportionalities have to be taken into account. Other high-profile positions such as parliamentary state secretaries (who are called state ministers in the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Chancellery for historical reasons), federal commissioners and parliamentary group chairmen are also delicate matters for each of the three parties and particularly complicated for the two smaller coalition partners with probably no more than five ministerial posts.

Traffic light coalition: Greens and FDP face staffing issues

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