In the Thuringian government crisis in March 2020, the Left, SPD, Greens and the CDU agreed new elections in April 2021.
The corona pandemic is sweeping away that schedule.
Now you should vote later.
Erfurt - In response to the dramatically high number of
corona infections
*, the election of the Thuringian state parliament has been postponed to September 26th.
The left, the SPD, the Greens and the CDU have agreed on this, as their top politicians announced on Thursday evening in
Erfurt
.
Parliament should not be dissolved in mid-February - and thus in the middle of the pandemic - as previously planned, in order to enable early elections on April 25.
On September 26th, the Bundestag, the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the House of Representatives in Berlin will also be elected.
State election in Thuringia: the date for new elections has been set
Thuringia's left parliamentary group and state party leader
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow
said that this was the earliest possible time in view of the pandemic situation.
A
red-red-green minority government led
by Prime Minister
Bodo Ramelow is
currently in power in Thuringia
.
It is dependent on cooperation with the opposition CDU.
The four parties had agreed on the early state elections - they then hope for a clear majority in parliament.
Regular elections in Thuringia would not take place until 2024.
By the end of January, the left, the SPD, the Greens and the CDU want to negotiate how they want to continue their previous stability pact.
The four parties agreed on the pact in the Thuringian government crisis in March 2020 after the FDP politician
Thomas Kemmerich was
elected short-term prime minister * with AfD votes.
State election in Thuringia postponed: State has the highest incidence in Germany
On Thursday, Thuringia had the highest
seven-day value
of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants
nationwide with 310
- even ahead of Saxony.
The parties therefore worried whether a state election in the few weeks between February and April with candidates and party conferences is even possible.
Unlike in
Baden-Württemberg
and
Rhineland-Palatinate
, where the state parliaments are to be regularly elected in March, preparations in Thuringia can only start after the state parliament is dissolved.
(dpa / fmü) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.
