Cabinet Ringstorff III

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Cabinet Ringstorff III
6. State government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Erwin Sellering
Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff
choice 2006
Legislative period 5.
education November 7, 2006
The End October 6, 2008
Duration 1 year and 334 days
predecessor Cabinet Ringstorff II
successor Cabinet Sellering I
composition
Party (s) SPD and CDU
representation
Parliament
45/71
Opposition leader Helmut Holter ( The Left )

The Ringstorff III cabinet was the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after the 2006 state elections . The grand coalition of the SPD and CDU replaced the red-red coalition that had ruled since 1998. Harald Ringstorff (SPD) was again Prime Minister . The government was in office from November 7, 2006 to October 6, 2008. In the middle of the five-year legislative period , Ringstorff resigned. Erwin Sellering took over his office ( Cabinet Sellering I ).

requirements

The first red-red coalition in Germany under Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff ( Cabinet Ringstorff I ), which has been in office since 1998 , stood for election, which was continued after the state elections in 2002 ( Cabinet Ringstorff II ). In the three-party system of SPD, CDU and PDS , the CDU was the only opposition party.

The SPD's top candidate was Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff. Jürgen Seidel stood for the CDU, Wolfgang Methling was nominated for the PDS, and the FDP's top candidate was Michael Roolf . Ulrike Seemann-Katz and Hendrik Fulda competed for the Greens, Udo Pastörs for the NPD .

The SPD, which ruled with the PDS, had to accept double-digit percentage losses compared to the good result of 2002, which was characterized by the strong national trend, but remained just under the strongest force before the CDU. The CDU suffered losses of 2.5 percentage points, while the PDS stabilized its 2002 result (+0.4%). The FDP moved back into the state parliament for the first time since the 1990 election , with a plus of 4.9 percentage points and a result of 9.6 percent . The largest gains (+6.5 percentage points) were achieved by the NPD, which was able to move into the state parliament for the first time with a result of 7.3 percent and six members. Despite a slight gain in votes (+0.8 percentage points), the Greens clearly failed to enter the state parliament with a result of 3.4 percent. With the entry of the FDP and NPD into the state parliament, the spectrum of parties expanded from a three-party system to a five-party system.

The grand coalition under Harald Ringstorff

The previous red-red coalition would still have had a narrow majority in the state parliament with 36 of 71 mandates, but the SPD opted for a grand coalition with the CDU. This was the third time after 1994 and 1998 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there was a half-change of government, in which a coalition partner remained in the government in order to form a coalition with a new partner. Harald Ringstorff was re-elected Prime Minister with 42 out of 71 possible votes, although the coalition had 45 seats.

Both the SPD and the almost equally strong CDU each received four ministries.

On October 3, 2008, Ringstorff and two other ministers resigned for reasons of age, the previous Minister of Social Affairs Erwin Sellering (SPD) became the new Prime Minister.

List of Cabinet Members

Ministry Surname Political party State Secretaries
Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff SPD Reinhard Meyer , SPD ( Head of the State Chancellery )
Thomas Freund , SPD ( Federal Commissioner )
Deputy Prime Minister Jürgen Seidel CDU -
Interior Lorenz Caffier CDU Thomas Lenz
Judiciary Uta-Maria Kuder CDU Rainer Dopp , CDU
Finances Sigrid Keler SPD Jost Mediger , SPD
Economy, work and tourism Jürgen Seidel CDU Stefan Rudolph
Rüdiger Möller , CDU
Agriculture, Environment and Consumer Protection Till Backhaus SPD Karl Otto Kreer , SPD
Education, science and culture Henry Tesch CDU Udo Michallik
Transport, construction and regional development Otto Ebnet SPD Sebastian Schröder , SPD
Social and health Erwin Sellering SPD Rainer Litten , SPD (until 2007)
Wolfgang Schmülling , SPD (from 2007)
Parliamentary State Secretary for Women and Equality - SPD Margret Seemann

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