The Left, SPD, Greens and CDU had promised each other in the Thuringian government crisis in 2020 to pave the way for a new election.
For this, the parliament should be dissolved.
Nothing will come of it now.
Erfurt - The dissolution of the Thuringian state parliament has failed, the way for the new election planned for September is blocked.
The left and the Greens pulled the ripcord on Friday and withdrew their signatures under a motion submitted together with the SPD and CDU for parliament to dissolve itself.
The reason: The necessary two-thirds majority of 60 of the 90 votes in parliament would not be achieved without AfD votes, they said.
The hope for stable political conditions in Thuringia will not be fulfilled for the time being.
The legislative period lasts until 2024, but red-red-green does not have a majority of its own.
For more than a year, the government of Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) had to rely on votes from the CDU for decisions.
The CDU has since terminated this stability agreement.
Ramelow said he was taking note of the withdrawal of the motion to dissolve the state parliament with respect.
It is now necessary to ensure that decisions can be made for the state, municipalities and citizens - this applies above all to the 2022 budget.
"It is important to us not to carry out the dissolution with votes from the AfD," a party "that hates parliamentary democracy," said left parliamentary group leader Steffen Dittes.
Like the Greens and the SPD, he spoke of a bitter decision that would cause incomprehension in view of the difficult majority situation in the state parliament.
A new election is actually necessary in the hope of stable majorities in Parliament in Erfurt, said SPD parliamentary group leader Matthias Hey.
The SPD did not withdraw their signatures, but supported their coalition partners.
Actually, the state election should take place together with the federal election on September 26th.
Stable conditions a long way off
Criticism and disappointment about the withdrawal came from the DGB and other organizations, but also from CDU parliamentary group leader Mario Voigt.
For Thuringia, opportunities have been wasted, so Voigt.
The special session of parliament called for Monday was canceled.
A new attempt to enable a new election should not be made for the time being, also made clear the parliamentary group leader of the Greens, Astrid Rothe-Beinlich.
She spoke of a final stroke.
"It is not up to a parliament to discuss its dissolution every year," said Dittes.
Hey spoke of a community of fate in which red-red-green is now.
The three government factions would approach the CDU and FDP "to try under democrats to keep this country on course".
Voigt, on the other hand, stated that the stability agreement that the CDU had with Red-Red-Green will end with the parliamentary summer break.
In his opinion there can be no new one.
The deputy chairman of the Thuringian Left, Minister of Health Heike Werner, wants to talk to the CDU and FDP about whether it will be possible to vote in parliament with changing majorities in the near future.
It is important that there is now a certain amount of trust between red-red-green and CDU and FDP, she told the German press agency.
"I hope that what has happened here will settle over the summer break" and "that common sense wins".
Allegations to the CDU
Representatives of the Bundestag parliamentary groups from the Left and the SPD made serious accusations of the CDU because four of their MPs had announced a no to the dissolution of the state parliament. "The CDU is developing into an unreliable chaotic troop that cannot get the door to the right-wing extremists shut, has a fat problem with rights in its own ranks and, like a state party, puts party interests above the common good," said the parliamentary executive director of the left-wing faction , Jan Korte, the dpa.
The parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group, Carsten Schneider, also gave CDU boss and candidate for chancellor Armin Laschet complicity in the political chaos in Thuringia. Schneider told the news portal t-online that he had not used his authority as CDU federal chairman on a fundamental issue of federal political importance. dpa
