Cabinet Ringstorff III
Cabinet Ringstorff III | |
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6. State government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
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 | |
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Prime Minister | Harald Ringstorff | SPD |
Reinhard Meyer , SPD ( Head of the State Chancellery ) Thomas Freund , SPD ( Federal Commissioner ) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Parliamentary State Secretary for Women and Equality | - | SPD | Margret Seemann |