The German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s new coalition government says it intends to ignore the new federal State Treaty on Gambling in favor of an independent and more liberal regulatory scheme.

Last month, local elections in Schleswig-Holstein failed to produce a single majority party, leading to complex negotiations on a coalition involving the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Green Party.

This ‘Jamaica coalition’ – so named due to the colors associated with the three parties being the same as those in the national flag of Jamaica – released its agreed upon fiscal policy positions on Thursday, which included a declaration that Schleswig-Holstein intends to go its own way on the subject of gambling legislation.

LNonline reported that the coalition intends to team up with the state governments in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse on a new regulatory scheme “based on the rules of the Schleswig-Holstein law valid until 2013.”