GREEN Wiesbaden agrees to the Maracuja Coalition Treaty
Wiesbaden, 22nd August 2026 – The members of BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN Wiesbaden approved the negotiated coalition agreement on Saturday in the Bürgersaal of the Galatea facility in Biebrich with 85 percent after an intensive discussion with different perspectives. This clears the way for the GRÜNEN to enter the new Maracuja coalition in Wiesbaden's town hall.
“We have negotiated intensively and constructively over the past seven weeks. The result is a sustainable coalition agreement that provides important impetus for Wiesbaden's future and bears a strong green signature. We are confidently joining this coalition and want to use the coming years to achieve concrete improvements for Wiesbaden", explains Co-Chairman Daniel Schmitt.
In the new coalition, the Greens want to ensure that Wiesbaden remains ecological and social. Key priorities include ambitious climate protection and adaptation, urban development and environmental protection, sustainable mobility, the preservation and expansion of urban infrastructure, and strong social policy. At the same time, the party is committed to a responsible fiscal policy that combines clear priorities with long-term capacity to act.
"Today's decision is a strong signal of our membership. It shows: The Greens are ready to continue to take responsibility for Wiesbaden in a new coalition and actively shape the future of our city", says Co-Chair Rebecca Thomas.
The district association would like to thank all members who have been involved in the coalition negotiations in recent months. With today's decision, the Wiesbaden Greens have laid the foundations for the next steps towards the formation of the new Town Hall Coalition. Together with their new coalition partners, they want to continue their successful work and further develop Wiesbaden ecologically, socially and sustainably.
Responsibility for two central departments
An essential part of the outcome of the negotiations is the future distribution of the department. Until 2029, the Greens – as well as the CDU – will assume responsibility for two departments. Christiane Hinninger and Andreas Kowol will remain in office as mayors and will assume responsibility for two particularly important areas that directly correspond to the political priorities of the Green Party: the Department of Social Affairs and Health and the Department of the Mayor for Environment and Urban Development. The Greens see the division as a balanced solution in line with the balance of power in the coalition.
“Of course it is painful for us Greens to hand over the transport department. However, with a balanced coalition agreement that takes all types of mobility into account, we have secured important transport policy successes and set the course for the transport system in our city to continue to become more sustainable, safe and efficient over the next five years. An alliance across the transport policy camps offers the opportunity to pacify the often heated discussions and to come to more common ground in the design of urban mobility", explains Daniel Schmitt.
"We are very pleased to have two politically important departments with high political potential until 2029 and to continue one of them until the end. Both the Department for Environment and Urban Development, which also includes the areas of women and LGBT*IQ, and the Department for Social Affairs and Health, which also includes housing, are departments that fit very well with our green social-ecological party profile. The division of offices also reflects fairly our balance of power vis-à-vis the CDU as well as vis-à-vis the FDP and Volt”, says Rebecca Thomas.
Commenting on the SPD, Rebecca Thomas says: ‘The mayor shall have the right of division. The SPD's continuation of the Department for School and Culture is the result of a tough but fair negotiation with the mayor. In this way, we were able to implement the desired departmental distribution in accordance with the negotiations with the other alliance partners and, in particular, to bring the city planning office, which was previously the mayor's office, into our department for environment and urban development. This was very important to us in order to effectively shape urban development.”
Now there is only one formality left
With the resolution of the General Assembly, the joint work on the implementation of the coalition agreement now begins. The Greens will exercise their responsibilities constructively, visibly and with clear political priorities. The next and final step to the coalition will be the signing of the coalition agreement by all coalition partners.
