Thuringia threatens new election debacle: CDU dissenters could thwart plans

Thuringia does not come to rest.

Red-Red-Green and the CDU have made a makeshift arrangement.

But the long-awaited new election could burst - because of the CDU.

Erfurt - Thuringia could face a new scandal around its state parliament: The resolution of the Erfurt state parliament planned for July 19 is on the brink.

According to a joint statement, four members of the CDU parliamentary group do not want to vote for the self-dissolution of parliament.

A big problem for the recently barely governable state.

Thuringia: New election wobbles - CDU could thwart plans for the day of the federal election

Because in the course of this new development the necessary two-thirds majority for the dissolution of the parliament would not come about.

And that would be a prerequisite for the state election planned for September 26th together with the federal election.

First, the daily

Freie Wort

reported on the decision of the four MPs.

After the severe government crisis in 2020, the opposition CDU parliamentary group agreed with the red-red-green minority coalition of Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) on an early state election - in the hope of clear majorities in parliament.

At that time, the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich was elected head of government with votes from the AfD *.

The state parliament would not normally be re-elected until 2024.

Ramelows Thuringia in turmoil: Four CDU MPs do not want new elections after all

Red-red-green and the CDU in Thuringia have signed a "stability agreement" as a stopgap measure.

A government majority in the state parliament could not be achieved after the most recent elections - nevertheless, the country should not be unable to act in the corona crisis.

The agreement is valid until the summer break.

This should actually be followed by new elections.

Originally even a state election was planned in April 2021. However, this plan was also thwarted by the Corona crisis.

In the declaration that the South Thuringian MP Michael Heym made public on request, according to dpa, among other things, since the adoption of the state budget for 2021, the four MPs have raised their "concerns about self-dissolution and clearly communicated that we are going this way will not go ”.

In a message from the Thuringian Greens in the Landtag, one can read that the leaders of the red-red-green parliamentary groups had invited CDU parliamentary group leader Mario Voigt to an “urgent conversation”.

How it should go in the event of a failed new election initially seemed unclear.

Ramelow is indignant about CDU dissenters: "What is your word actually worth?"

Ramelow was also alarmed in a tweet: “What is your word worth? How should the state parliament now be dissolved? How do you want to keep your word? ”He asked - apparently addressed to the CDU in the Landtag. The Thuringian left-wing vice Steffen Dittes referred in the short message service to further reasons for doubts about the credibility of the CDU plans - so there were six or nine votes against new elections in two trial votes by the Christian Democrats. A survey recently saw in Thuringia noticeable losses for the CDU, but - to a lesser extent - also for the left.

Left, SPD and Greens have 42 votes in the Landtag in Erfurt, the CDU over 21. For the dissolution of parliament, at least 60 of the total of 90 members would have to vote. If the attitude of the four CDU MPs remained, one vote would be missing. According to previous information, the FDP and AfD do not want to actively dissolve the state parliament. (

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