Constitutional complaint on parity law failed
Created: 01/18/2022 10:19 am
A figure of the blind Justitia.
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Parties in Thuringia must still not be required by law to fill their lists of candidates for state elections alternately with men and women.
A constitutional complaint against a court decision that had declared the parity law in the federal state void was not accepted by the Federal Constitutional Court for decision, as the court announced on Tuesday in Karlsruhe.
Karlsruhe/Erfurt - The constitutional complaint was inadmissible, it said.
In the summer of 2020, the Thuringian Constitutional Court overturned a statutory quota system for state elections in Thuringia.
The President of Thuringia's Constitutional Court, Stefan Kaufmann, justified the decision by the freedom of choice that elections should not be carried out by coercion and pressure from the state.
At that time, the Thuringian AfD had sued against the obligation to quote.
A parity law also failed in Brandenburg because it was overturned by a court after complaints by the NPD and AfD.
dpa