Left parliamentary group leader: are looking for majorities in the CDU and FDP

Created: 06/22/2022Updated: 06/22/2022 15:43

The members of the Thuringian state parliament sit in the plenary hall.

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The parliamentary group leader of the left, Steffen Dittes, does not see the situation of red-red-green changed by the planned formation of a second parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament.

"We will continue to look for majorities for our projects in the democratic opposition of the CDU and FDP," Dittes told the German Press Agency in Erfurt on Wednesday.

Erfurt - "This does not change anything in the power constellation in the Thuringian state parliament." First of all, the state parliament administration has to check whether the planned group status of four MPs is legally possible.

Dittes was reacting to the announcement by Ute Bergner, who had resigned from the FDP, that she and three deputies who had left the AfD parliamentary group wanted to form a parliamentary group “Citizens for Thuringia”.

Citizens for Thuringia is a small party that is largely represented by Bergner.

In his estimation, the three former members of the AfD parliamentary group have not really turned away from their former parliamentary group politically, Dittes said.

"You probably left the faction more or less for personal reasons."

Thuringia's state parliament has the special feature that the government factions Left, SPD and Greens do not have their own majority with 42 votes - they lack four votes for their own decisions.

They can be overruled by the opposition at any time - the CDU, AfD and the FDP group together have 44 votes.

There are also four non-attached members who used to belong to two different political camps.

dpa