Alternative youth list

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The Alternative Youth List (AJL) was a list association of several youth associations approved in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for the Volkskammer elections on March 18, 1990 and for the local elections on May 6, 1990 .

In the Volkskammer elections, the AJL consisted of the German Youth Party (DJP), the Green Youth (GJ) in the GDR, the Marxist youth association “Young Left” (MJV) and the Free German Youth (FDJ). With 14,615 votes across the GDR, it achieved a share of 0.12 percent. There was no threshold clause in the electoral law at the time . The AJL missed a mandate and thus the entry into the People's Chamber by 484 votes.

At the local elections in the GDR in May 1990, the AJL ran again with a composition that varied depending on the local circumstances, but was not able to record any notable successes in these elections either.

literature

  • Berndt Musiolek, Jürgen Eichler, Carola Wuttke: Parties and political movements in the last year of the GDR (October 1989 to April 1990). BasisDruck Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-86-163004-4 , pp. 38, 44/45 and 54
  • Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan: The parties and organizations of the GDR: A manual. Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-32-001988-0 , p. 255