Cabinet Ringstorff II
Cabinet Ringstorff II | |
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5. State government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
Prime Minister | Harald Ringstorff |
choice | 2002 |
Legislative period | 4th |
education | November 6, 2002 |
The End | November 7, 2006 |
Duration | 4 years and 1 day |
predecessor | Cabinet Ringstorff I |
successor | Cabinet Ringstorff III |
composition | |
Party (s) | SPD and Die Linke |
representation | |
Parliament | 46/71 |
Opposition leader | Eckhardt Rehberg ( CDU ) |
The Ringstorff II cabinet was the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after the state elections in 2002 . It continued the red-red coalition of the SPD and PDS that had ruled since 1998. Prime Minister was Harald Ringstorff (SPD). The government was in office from November 6, 2002 to November 7, 2006.
requirements
The first red-red coalition in Germany under Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff ( Cabinet Ringstorff I ) stood for election . This first government with the participation of the SED successor party PDS in Germany had provoked heated discussions nationwide. Critics spoke of a “taboo break” or a “fall from man”, others of a “normalization” in dealing with a democratically elected party that received almost a quarter of the votes. When Ringstorff was elected Prime Minister, eight MPs from his own camp refused to vote, which was seen as a clear indication of the reluctance in parts of their own party to cooperate with the socialist PDS. Ringstorff's strategy of wanting to "disenchant" the PDS in the day-to-day business of governing, however, worked, the PDS lost eight percentage points in 2002 and was the clear loser of choice.
The coalition's record was modest. After a four-year term in office, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had an unemployment rate of 20%, the gross domestic product had fallen continuously since 1999 and the establishment of large industrial projects such as the production of the Airbus in Rostock failed. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had not made any economic progress during the third legislative period. The PDS had not been able to implement the announced policy change in everyday practical work and remained largely a majority procurer for the SPD.
The top candidates for the 2002 state elections were the popular Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff for the SPD, who was in charge of presidentialization of his office, and the two parliamentary group leaders in the Schwerin state parliament, Eckhardt Rehberg for the CDU and Angelika Gramkow for the PDS. As since the state elections in 1994 , only three parties were represented in the Schwerin state parliament after the 2002 election. The SPD won 33 seats (an increase of six seats), the CDU 25 (+1) and the PDS 13 (-7). Both the FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen as well as the right-wing extremist parties failed because of the threshold clause .
The red-red coalition in the fourth legislative period
Despite the changed balance of power, the PDS retained three ministerial posts. For the PDS, having to organize the labor market reforms that came into force in 2005 was a test of strength as a ruling party. While the PDS vehemently mobilized against Agenda 2010 of the red-green federal government, the Schwerin parliament was the first state parliament to pass the Hartz IV implementation law from the Ministry of Labor under Helmut Holter (PDS) with the votes of the PDS .
List of ministers
minister | Surname | Political party | State Secretary | |
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Prime Minister | Harald Ringstorff | SPD |
Frank Tidick , SPD (until 2005) Reinhard Meyer , SPD (from 2006) ( Head of the State Chancellery ) Thomas Freund , ( Federal Agent ) |
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Deputy Prime Minister | Wolfgang Methling | PDS | ||
Interior | Gottfried Timm | SPD | Hartmut Bosch , SPD | |
Judiciary | Erwin Sellering | SPD | Rainer Litten , SPD (from 2003) | |
Finances | Sigrid Keler | SPD | Jost Mediger , SPD | |
economy | Otto Ebnet | SPD |
Reinhard Meyer (until 2005) Sebastian Schröder (from 2006) |
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Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | Till Backhaus | SPD | Karl Otto Kreer , SPD | |
environment | Wolfgang Methling | PDS |
Dietmar Glitz (until January 2003) Harald Stegemann , Linke (from January 2003) |
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Education, science and culture | Hans-Robert Metelmann | independent | Manfred Hiltner , SPD | |
Labor, construction and land development | Helmut Holter | PDS | Klaus Sühl , left | |
Social | Marianne Linke | PDS | Wolfram Friedersdorff , left | |
Parliamentary State Secretary for Women and Equality | - | SPD | Margret Seemann |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas, Oskar Niedermayer , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 265. [Further literature on this debate is specified there under note 2]
- ↑ a b c Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas, Oskar Niedermayer, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 271.
- ↑ Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas, Oskar Niedermayer, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 272.
- ↑ Karsten Grabow: The party system of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in: Parties and party systems in the German states , edited by Uwe Jun, Melanie Haas, Oskar Niedermayer, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 273.