Thuringia: parliamentary group status of the FDP in the state parliament endangered

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Non-party member of the state parliament Ute Bergner

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The non-party member of the state parliament Ute Bergner wants to resign from the FDP parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament.

Instead, she wants to belong in the future to the “Citizens for Thuringia” parliamentary group.

This is reported by the MDR, among others.

She is currently the chairman of the association, which cannot be assigned to any specific political spectrum.

Bergner had already left the party earlier this month.

There had recently been a dispute in the parliamentary group after Bergner wanted to vote for the dissolution of the Thuringian state parliament.

The other four MEPs in the group did not want that.

Ultimately, there was no dissolution of parliament.

The parliamentary groups of the Greens and Left had withdrawn their motions, stating that the necessary two-thirds majority had not been secured.

So there will be no new elections in the state in September.

The election of the FDP candidate Thomas Kemmerich as Prime Minister with votes from the AfD triggered a government crisis in Thuringia a year ago.

The left and the Greens now feared that it could again be the voices of the right-wing populists who decide their motions.

They didn't want to risk that.

Left, SPD, Greens and CDU, who once stood behind the motion to dissolve parliament, only got 58 of the necessary 60 votes in the end, because four CDU and two left-wing MPs no longer wanted to participate for various reasons.

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