State election in Thuringia 2009
The state election in Thuringia 2009 was the fifth election to the Thuringian state parliament since 1990 and took place on August 30, 2009 together with the state elections in Saarland and Saxony . It was the last election before the federal election on September 27, 2009 .
According to the official final result, the CDU of Prime Minister Dieter Althaus lost more than eleven percentage points and thus its absolute majority, but remained the strongest party. The Left and SPD won shares of the vote; In addition to a possible CDU-SPD coalition, the Left and the SPD together also had a majority of the state parliament mandates. The Greens and FDP moved into the Thuringian state parliament for the first time since 1990, while Free Voters and NPD failed with results of 4%.
Due to the result, Prime Minister Althaus resigned on September 3, 2009. The CDU then formed a coalition with the SPD, Christine Lieberknecht became Prime Minister ( Lieberknecht cabinet ).
Parties
The following parties entered the state elections in Thuringia in 2009 with their own state list:
| Order code drawing |
Full name | Applicants | Top candidate | Year of birth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 89 | Dieter Althaus ( Heiligenstadt ) | 1958 |
| THE LEFT | The left | 61 | Bodo Ramelow ( Erfurt ) | 1956 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 73 | Christoph Matschie ( Jena ) | 1961 |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 15th | Astrid Rothe-Beinlich (Erfurt) | 1973 |
| REP | The Republicans | 10 | Heinz-Joachim Schneider (Jena) | 1939 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 24 | Uwe Barth (Jena) | 1964 |
| Free voters Thuringia | Free voters in Thuringia | 57 | Jürgen Haschke (Jena) | 1942 |
| NPD | National Democratic Party of Germany | 16 | Frank Schwerdt ( Eisenach ) | 1944 |
| ödp | Ecological Democratic Party | 14th | Karl-Edmund Vogt ( Leinefelde-Worbis ) | 1944 |
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For the state elections, a total of 16 parties were allowed to submit state lists because they had been represented in the Bundestag or in a state parliament since their last election on the basis of their own election proposals or had been recognized as parties by the state election committee. Of these, 13 submitted a state list by June 25, 2009. In the public meeting of the state election committee on July 3, the lists of the nine named parties with a total of 359 applicants were finally allowed to vote. The Communist Party of Germany (KPD), the Family Party of Germany (FAMILY), the Thuringian People's Union (TVU) and the party Die Guten from Jena were not allowed .
A total of 273 constituency candidates ran in the 44 constituencies, 90 of them without a place on the list. In addition to the CDU, Die Linke and SPD, only the NPD presented a direct candidate in each constituency. In the constituency of Saale-Orla-Kreis I , a constituency applicant for the Independent Citizens' Representation - Free Voting Community of the Saale-Orla-Kreis (UBV) stood.
Initial situation (election 2004)
In the 2004 state elections , the CDU Thuringia defended the absolute majority despite losses compared to the 1999 state elections . A CDU sole government was formed under Dieter Althaus ( Cabinet Althaus II ). As in 1999, the PDS had become the strongest opposition party before the SPD. As in 1994 and 1999, the FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen failed because of the five percent hurdle .
Election campaign
Campaign of the Junge Union against Bodo Ramelow
The Junge Union (JU) Thuringia started the “Stop Ramelow” campaign at the end of July 2009 against the top candidate of the left, Bodo Ramelow . Among other things, the JU appeared during Ramelow's campaign appearances as part of his “summer tour”, which began on August 1, with banners and leaflets about alleged election goals and political views of Ramelow. Ramelow initiated legal action, whereupon the Berlin Regional Court banned large parts of the campaign on August 5th. From now on, the Junge Union is no longer allowed to spread the word that Ramelow wants to “close all grammar schools in Thuringia” and “reintroduce the three old GDR districts” or have said that the GDR was “not an unjust state” . The deputy JU state chairman Stefan Gruhner accused Ramelow of trying “to avoid a debate about his actual goals for the country” and that he was “so afraid that he had to hide behind lawyers and paragraphs” . Prime Minister and CDU top candidate Dieter Althaus said he was "not informed and not involved" in relation to the JU campaign .
The JU Thuringia already had a postcard with the slogan “real Thuringian - false Thuringian” and “none of us - none for us” juxtaposing the picture of a Thuringian Rostbratwurst and a photo of Ramelow (alluding to its West German origin) withdrawn according to the instructions of the CDU regional manager Andreas Minschke .
Racist incident during the election campaign
During the election campaign, the German-Angolan CDU member Zeca Schall was insulted and threatened by the Thuringian NPD. The incident attracted national and international attention. In the local elections in Thuringia in 2009 , Schall ran for the Hildburghausen district council without gaining a seat. Schall works in the AG “Integration of Foreign Citizens” of the Thuringian CDU, which was founded in early 2008 , without leading it or speaking for it. In the press he was wrongly referred to as the "integration officer" of the Thuringian CDU.
The CDU had depicted him on election posters during the state election campaign, among others together with Prime Minister Althaus. In a press release, the NPD described Schall as a “quota negro” and announced that it would “seek direct conversation” and “encourage him to return home”. Thereupon the CDU informed the state security. The party filed a criminal complaint and published a declaration of solidarity, but nevertheless continued to cover the posters with motifs without Schalls image, which had already begun on May 10th. This exchange of posters met with criticism from other parties.
Regional magazine "Great Thuringia"
One week before the state elections, the magazine “Tolles Thüringen” was distributed to all households in the state. Since it mainly contains content and politicians from the CDU (such as an election recommendation for the CDU by PR advisor and Althaus confidante Wolfgang Stock ), the opposition parties raised the charge of covert election advertising for the CDU. Although the magazine also contains interviews with the top candidate of the left, Bodo Ramelow , or with the Stern deputy editor -in- chief Hans-Ulrich Jörges , these “came about under false guidelines”. Another indication of the accused CDU authorship of the magazine can be found on page 8, where the failure of the family party is presented as support for CDU policy. In fact, however, the family party had rejected the CDU's requested support and made an election recommendation for the ecological-democratic party Thuringia (ödp - family, justice, environment). Since the booklet also contained advertising for the Thuringian lottery company, the SPD alleged that the head of the lottery company, Jörg Schwäblein (CDU), may have violated the financial guidelines of the law on political parties and filed a complaint. The CDU denied collaboration on the magazine, but was pleased with the positive reporting on the country and the government.
Survey
| Institute | date | CDU | THE LEFT | SPD | GREEN | FDP | Rights or NPD | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Market Research | August 22, 2009 | 37% | 23% | 20% | 5% | 9% | 3% | 3% |
| Research group elections | August 21, 2009 | 35% | 25% | 18% | 5% | 10% | - | 7% |
| Infratest dimap | August 20, 2009 | 34% | 24% | 19% | 6% | 8th % | 4% | 5% |
| Infratest dimap | August 12, 2009 | 34% | 24% | 20% | 6% | 9% | 3% | 4% |
| Forsa | July 29, 2009 | 40% | 24% | 16% | 6% | 6% | 3% | 5% |
| Infratest dimap | June 25, 2009 | 36% | 24% | 18% | 6% | 9% | 3% | 4% |
| Institute for Market Research | May 25, 2009 | 36% | 23% | 23% | 5% | 8th % | 3% | 2% |
| Infratest dimap | May 14, 2009 | 39% | 25% | 20% | 5% | 6% | 2% | 3% |
| Infratest dimap | March 25, 2009 | 36% | 25% | 20% | 5% | 8th % | - | 6% |
| GESS | March 10, 2009 | 39% | 25% | 18% | 4% | 8th % | - | 6% |
| Forsa | January 22, 2009 | 39% | 28% | 16% | 5% | 5% | 4% | 3% |
Election results
| Constituency votes | National votes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | Electoral kreisbe- tors |
Direct MAN date |
number | % | Seats | |
| Eligible voters | 1,910,074 | 1,910,074 | |||||
| Voters | 1,073,651 | 56.21 | 1,073,651 | 56.21 | |||
| Valid votes | 1,050,402 | 97.83 | 1,054,297 | 98.20 | |||
| CDU | 333,893 | 31.79 | 44 | 28 | 329,302 | 31.23 | 30th |
| The left | 290.832 | 27.69 | 44 | 14th | 288,915 | 27.40 | 27 |
| SPD | 199,948 | 19.04 | 44 | 2 | 195.363 | 18.53 | 18th |
| FDP | 79,936 | 7.61 | 41 | 80,600 | 7.64 | 7th | |
| Green | 57.065 | 5.43 | 35 | 64,912 | 6.16 | 6th | |
| NPD | 47,447 | 4.52 | 44 | 45,451 | 4.31 | ||
| Free voters | 37,633 | 3.58 | 19th | 40,811 | 3.87 | ||
| REP | - | - | 4,488 | 0.43 | |||
| ödp | 1,049 | 0.10 | 1 | 4,455 | 0.42 | ||
| Individual applicants | 2,599 | 0.25 | 1 | - | |||
| total | 1,050,402 | 100 | 273 | 44 | 1,054,297 | 100 | 88 |
Direct mandates
The CDU candidate prevailed in 28 constituencies, the left candidate in 14 and the SPD applicants in two constituencies. Compared to 2004, the CDU lost nine constituencies to the Left and two to the SPD.
Country votes by district
| Lkr. | WB | G / V | CDU | G / V | left | G / V | SPD | G / V | FDP | G / V | Green | G / V | NPD | G / V | Free voters |
G / V |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABG | 51.0% | +2.2 | 34.2% | −9.3 | 27.3% | +0.4 | 19.1% | +4.0 | 7.8% | +3.7 | 3.7% | +1.2 | 5.1% | +3.3 | 2.0% | +0.6 |
| AP | 58.4% | +1.4 | 32.4% | −13.7 | 24.0% | +1.1 | 18.3% | +4.7 | 8.7% | +4.6 | 6.4% | +2.2 | 4.8% | +3.1 | 4.6% | +2.4 |
| EA | 55.8% | +4.6 | 26.6% | −10.7 | 28.6% | −0.6 | 19.4% | +2.8 | 7.0% | +3.9 | 8.4% | +1.1 | 5.1% | +4.3 | 4.2% | +2.8 |
| EF | 58.0% | +6.2 | 25.3% | −10.8 | 28.4% | −2.8 | 19.8% | +5.3 | 7.5% | +3.9 | 10.5% | +2.0 | 3.3% | +2.4 | 4.4% | +3.6 |
| EIC | 62.7% | +2.1 | 49.2% | −17.0 | 14.4% | +2.0 | 13.1% | +3.4 | 7.9% | +4.9 | 4.0% | +1.3 | 3.6% | +1.6 | 5.9% | +5.1 |
| G | 53.0% | +4.7 | 27.4% | −8.4 | 36.2% | +1.3 | 15.7% | +2.1 | 8.4% | +4.9 | 5.6% | +1.3 | 4.2% | +2.6 | 1.8% | +0.6 |
| GRZ | 57.1% | +2.7 | 35.2% | −12.4 | 25.9% | +2.4 | 17.7% | +3.6 | 9.0% | +5.3 | 4.7% | +1.5 | 4.2% | +2.7 | 2.5% | +0.8 |
| GTH | 56.8% | +1.0 | 31.0% | −13.9 | 24.3% | −1.4 | 22.7% | +8.6 | 6.8% | +3.3 | 5.3% | +1.5 | 5.2% | +4.0 | 3.8% | +1.8 |
| HBN | 53.4% | +2.3 | 31.4% | −13.4 | 31.3% | +5.4 | 17.7% | +1.4 | 7.2% | +4.1 | 4.4% | +1.6 | 4.0% | +2.4 | 3.0% | +0.9 |
| IK | 58.0% | +2.2 | 28.6% | −15.7 | 28.3% | +1.9 | 17.9% | +3.5 | 7.0% | +3.5 | 6.6% | +2.1 | 4.8% | +3.4 | 5.8% | +4.1 |
| J | 59.1% | +1.2 | 22.5% | −9.2 | 26.1% | +0.3 | 22.3% | +3.1 | 9.2% | +4.8 | 13.8% | +1.9 | 2.0% | +0.7 | 3.3% | +1.7 |
| KYF | 53.5% | +2.6 | 30.4% | −13.6 | 31.0% | +3.8 | 20.2% | +5.6 | 6.5% | +3.2 | 4.4% | +1.7 | 4.4% | +1.4 | 2.3% | +0.9 |
| NDH | 54.3% | +5.8 | 29.3% | −11.6 | 29.4% | −0.6 | 21.8% | +5.7 | 7.7% | +3.9 | 5.8% | +2.0 | 4.0% | +2.4 | 1.5% | +0.6 |
| SHK | 59.7% | +1.3 | 33.2% | −11.3 | 28.2% | +3.1 | 17.1% | +2.2 | 8.7% | +4.6 | 5.1% | +1.4 | 3.7% | +2.2 | 3.1% | +1.5 |
| SHL | 55.0% | +4.3 | 24.8% | −8.8 | 38.4% | +2.7 | 16.0% | +1.7 | 7.0% | +3.3 | 5.9% | +1.9 | 3.4% | +1.8 | 3.8% | +0.1 |
| SLF | 55.2% | +1.4 | 31.0% | −12.3 | 28.7% | +2.5 | 18.2% | +3.2 | 7.3% | +3.7 | 4.6% | +1.4 | 6.1% | +3.3 | 3.2% | +1.5 |
| SM | 54.2% | −0.6 | 31.4% | −6.5 | 28.1% | +2.0 | 17.9% | +4.4 | 7.2% | +3.2 | 5.0% | +1.5 | 4.3% | +3.2 | 5.4% | −4.6 |
| SOK | 57.1% | +2.5 | 31.8% | −12.6 | 28.9% | +2.1 | 18.6% | +4.0 | 7.9% | +4.3 | 3.8% | +0.9 | 4.4% | +2.7 | 3.7% | +2.0 |
| SÖM | 56.1% | +1.4 | 31.8% | −14.4 | 26.7% | +0.4 | 16.7% | +4.1 | 7.8% | +3.8 | 4.9% | +1.5 | 5.3% | +3.5 | 6.1% | +4.7 |
| SON | 52.4% | +2.9 | 34.0% | −9.5 | 34.2% | +5.4 | 15.2% | +0.5 | 6.0% | +2.8 | 3.1% | +0.4 | 4.8% | +3.1 | 1.9% | +0.3 |
| UH | 55.5% | +2.9 | 32.6% | −14.4 | 25.4% | +1.0 | 19.7% | +4.9 | 8.8% | +5.3 | 4.5% | +1.7 | 3.8% | +2.2 | 4.6% | +2.5 |
| WAK | 55.1% | −1.5 | 34.1% | −6.3 | 25.8% | +1.9 | 17.9% | +3.7 | 5.9% | +2.9 | 4.5% | +1.1 | 5.4% | +4.2 | 5.6% | −4.5 |
| WE | 58.9% | +3.8 | 25.8% | −11.9 | 25.1% | +1.6 | 18.9% | +3.3 | 7.9% | +4.2 | 14.8% | +2.3 | 3.2% | +2.3 | 3.4% | +2.5 |
Extreme values
For the national vote distribution.
| place | WB | place | CDU | place | left | place | SPD | place | FDP | place | Green | place | NPD | place | FW | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Barley ground | 91.8 | Barley ground | 95.5 | Günserode | 47.5 | Little buckedra | 40.0 | Mörsdorf | 55.6 | Oetter | 27.5 | Urnshausen | 21.0 | Baffles | 36.8 |
| 2. | grove | 91.5 | Schleid | 77.2 | Midsummer | 45.5 | ferrule | 37.3 | Oepfershausen | 31.7 | Weimar | 14.8 | Andenhausen | 19.6 | Great Monra | 29.4 |
| 3. | Meusebach | 90.2 | Rockenstuhl | 76.9 | Blankenstein | 45.1 | Holzsußra | 35.5 | Göllnitz | 31.1 | Jena | 13.8 | Wild spring | 18.7 | Riethnordhausen | 27.0 |
| 4th | Quaschwitz | 84.5 | Rohrberg | 75.8 | Deesbach | 45.0 | Rehungen | 35.0 | Friedrichsthal | 28.7 | Lindewerra | 13.6 | Troistedt | 17.1 | Brehme | 22.4 |
| 5. | Glasehausen | 81.4 | Buttlar | 74.2 | Hornsummer | 44.9 | Rice village | 34.9 | Gertewitz | 26.5 | Leutenthal | 13.5 | Blacksmith field | 17.0 | Fambach | 20.7 |
| 5. | Melpers | 38.2 | Riethgen | 17.3 | Buttlar | 5.5 | Brehme | 4.8 | Miesitz | 1.2 | ||||||
| 4th | Haselbach | 38.2 | Seega | 16.8 | Rockenstuhl | 4.3 | Drugs | 4.5 | Friedersdorf | 1.0 | ||||||
| 3. | Lehesten | 37.8 | Bruchstedt | 16.7 | Rohrberg | 3.2 | Schleid | 4.5 | Waltersdorf | 0.9 | ||||||
| 2. | Light | 37.2 | Mörsdorf | 14.7 | Schleid | 3.2 | Brunnhartshausen | 3.6 | Melpers | 0.0 | ||||||
| 1. | Frankenheim | 30.4 | Alkersleben | 10.5 | Barley ground | 0.0 | Barley ground | 0.0 | Nirmsdorf | 0.0 |
The Greens received no votes in a total of 19 municipalities (all under 500 inhabitants). The NPD received no votes in 13 communities with less than 500 inhabitants. The free voters received no votes in 24 municipalities. With the exception of Bendelebens , these communities had fewer than 500 inhabitants.
Parties
- The CDU suffered heavy losses everywhere, but remained the strongest party overall. Their strongholds were still in Eichsfeld and in the southern Wartburg district and thus in the two larger traditionally Catholic areas of Thuringia. In East Thuringia, too, the CDU did relatively well in rural areas, while in the Thuringian Forest it lost some constituencies to the Left Party. The CDU is traditionally weaker in state elections in the larger cities of the country, so it could not win any of the eleven constituencies of the independent cities.
- The left performed inconsistently: in some areas it gained easily, in others it lost easily. It was able to win above all in the rural, previously CDU-dominated areas, while it lost popularity in the larger cities. However, the left managed to reduce the gap to the CDU to only three seats in the state parliament. For the first time, it was also able to win direct mandates across the board that were outside of its classic strongholds, the prefabricated satellite cities.
- The SPD recorded an increase in votes in most areas. In addition to the city of Jena, their strongholds are also the districts of Gotha and Nordhausen, a trend that was already evident in the local elections in June. However, she was unable to repeat her very high votes in Erfurt in the state elections. As in previous elections, the SPD performed poorly in many rural communities. For the first time in a long time, the SPD was able to win direct mandates again (in Gotha and Jena).
- The FDP was able to more than double its result compared to the last election and benefited from the weakness of the CDU. Their results were relatively uniform across the country and did not vary significantly between the individual regions or between town and country.
- The Greens were able to record slight gains in votes and, like the FDP, managed to return to the state parliament for the first time since 1990. Their results varied widely across the country. While it barely got more than 3% of the vote in many rural areas and small towns, it achieved results of more than 25% of the votes in five electoral districts in Weimar and Jena. In the other two university cities (Erfurt and Ilmenau) the Greens also performed well above average, as did Nordhausen and Eisenach.
- The NPD was able to more than double its result compared to 2004, but failed to make it into the state parliament. It did well in the very small rural communities. This was particularly the case in villages in the Rhön and Thuringian Slate Mountains. In contrast, it received significantly fewer votes in the large cities, where it was only able to pass the five percent hurdle in a few prefabricated housing estates, or at least come close to it.
- The Free Voters increased their results significantly, they were able - like the FDP - to benefit from the weakness of the CDU and especially to score points in their strongholds such as Eichsfeld. In some other areas, for example in Gera or Jena, the free voters hardly received any votes.
- As in 2004, the ödp hardly received any votes and again remained below 0.5%. Its activities are essentially limited to the Eichsfeld, where it was able to achieve 2.5% and 0.9% of the vote.
- The Republicans lost a lot of votes, especially to the NPD, which overtook them as the strongest right-wing party in the country. Their results hardly varied between regions, cities and municipalities.
Coalition formation
The absolute majority in the Thuringian state parliament was 45 seats.
Only in a coalition with the SPD (together 48 seats in the state parliament) was the CDU a realistic possibility of continuing to participate in the government. Dieter Althaus announced exploratory talks with the SPD on election night. A coalition of the CDU, FDP and Greens (43 seats) did not have a majority in the state parliament and was also rejected by the Greens' top candidate, Astrid Rothe-Beinlich.
Resignation of Althaus and reorganization of the CDU
On September 3rd, Dieter Althaus announced his resignation as Prime Minister and State Chairman of the CDU Thuringia with immediate effect. The SPD had previously emphasized its rejection of Althaus as Prime Minister with regard to possible coalition negotiations with the CDU; Members of the CDU had also expressed criticism of Althaus' leadership style. The Presidium of the Thuringian CDU unanimously appointed Christine Lieberknecht as the party's candidate for the office of Prime Minister.
Exploratory talks between the SPD, Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
An alliance of the SPD and the Left would have had a slim majority of 45 seats, while a red-red-green alliance would have 51 seats. However, it remained open who could provide the prime minister in such a coalition: SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen confirmed their rejection of prime minister Ramelow even after the election, while Ramelow said in a radio interview that Christoph Matschie would “by no means get an order from his party get to become Prime Minister ” . On September 17, Ramelow finally declared his willingness to renounce the office of prime minister for a possible red-red-green coalition, even if Matschie renounced and the left, the SPD and the Greens would “make a personnel proposal on an equal footing” . This move by Ramelow also met with criticism from his own party leadership.
On September 29, 2009, Christoph Matschie declared that he was renouncing the office of Prime Minister, but continued to insist that the SPD should provide the Prime Minister in a coalition with the participation of the left. However, as a stronger party than the SPD, the Left continued to claim the office of Prime Minister for itself. On September 30, 2009, Ramelow was willing to compromise to accept an SPD prime minister if the three coalition partners, Left, SPD and Greens, could agree on him.
Formation of the black-red coalition
After the SPD had conducted exploratory talks with the CDU as well as with the Left and the Greens, the SPD state executive decided on the night of October 1 to start coalition negotiations with the CDU because the talks with the Left and the Greens had failed. The coalition negotiations between the CDU and the SPD then began.
Resistance to coalition negotiations with the CDU formed within the Thuringian SPD; Prominent critics were, among others, the Saalfeld district administrator Marion Philipp , the mayors of Erfurt and Gera, Andreas Bausewein and Norbert Vornehm , and the Juso state chairman and newly elected member of the state parliament Peter Metz . Matschie's internal party opponents called an SPD base conference in Erfurt on October 10 and started collecting signatures against the planned coalition.
On October 20, 2009, the CDU and SPD presented the finished coalition agreement. Both coalition parties approved the contract at their party congresses on October 25th - while the CDU (where Christine Lieberknecht was also elected state chairman) unanimously approved the 133 delegates, the SPD received 148 votes against, 44 against and seven abstentions.
Election of the Prime Minister
On October 30th, Christine Lieberknecht was elected Prime Minister in the third ballot. In the first two ballots, Lieberknecht only received 44 of the coalition's 48 votes, while 45 were necessary for an absolute majority. In the third ballot, Bodo Ramelow, the top candidate of the Left, ran as the opposing candidate, which Lieberknecht now also brought in votes from the opposition, so that she was elected Prime Minister with 55 votes.
Effects of the election result on the Federal Council
In combination with the result of the state election in Saarland , the state election also meant the possible end of the majority of the Union and FDP in the Bundesrat . Due to the election result of the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein and the black-yellow coalition formed there , the black-yellow majority in the Bundesrat was retained.
See also
Web links
- Regional Returning Officer Thuringia
- Advice on the state elections 2009 from the Thuringian state returning officer (PDF; 937 kB)
- Nominations for the 2009 state elections to the Thuringian state returning officer (PDF; 2 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ State election 2009 in Thuringia - final result. State result Thuringian State Office for Statistics
- ↑ mdr.de "Althaus resigns" ( Memento from September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 16 parties are allowed to submit nominations for the 2009 state elections , press release by the Thuringia State Returning Officer, June 19, 2009
- ↑ 13 submitted state lists for the state elections on August 30, 2009 in Thuringia , press release by the Thuringia state returning officer, June 25, 2009
- ↑ Approved state lists for the state elections on August 30, 2009 , press release by the Thuringia State Returning Officer, July 3, 2009
- ^ Campaign website
- ^ A b "Stop Ramelow" campaign of the Junge Union banned , Zeit Online, August 5, 2009
- ↑ Regional court Berlin prohibits defamation campaign of the Junge Union ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release from Bodo Ramelow, August 5, 2009
- ↑ Junge Union: Ramelow hides behind paragraphs ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Junge Union Thüringen, August 4, 2009 (PDF; 62 kB)
- ^ JU sausage against Wessi Ramelow , Der Tagesspiegel, August 1, 2009
- ↑ District council elections and city council elections of the independent cities in Thuringia 2009 - final result of the district 069 (Hildburghausen): Schall received 42 first votes out of 92,421 valid votes cast. That was the lowest number of first votes of 40 CDU candidates in the district. His list position (30) was hopeless from the outset with 30 mandates to be awarded in the district council. In: Thuringian State Office for Statistics, State Returning Officer: District elections and city council elections of the independent cities in Thuringia from June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Lt. Information from the press spokesman and organizer of the CDU Thuringia, Heiko Senebald ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated August 24, 2009.
- ↑ NPD threatens black CDU politician , in Spiegel-Online , August 11, 2009
- ↑ PDF version of the magazine ( Memento of the original dated August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Controversy over regional magazine : Opposition accuses Thuringian CDU of covert election advertising . In: Spiegel Online , August 21, 2009
- ↑ No inhibitions - canvassing for Prime Minister Althaus . ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Zapp , August 26, 2009
- ↑ Press release of the family party Thuringia .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Election polls on the state elections in Thuringia
- ^ Thuringian regional returning officer: State elections - election results
- ↑ State elections: CDU loses, SPD and left stagnate , Welt Online, August 31, 2009
- ↑ a b Thuringia: The future state government is completely open , Focus Online, August 31, 2009
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ today : Dieter Althaus resigns as Prime Minister and CDU regional chief ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of September 3, 2009 (accessed on September 3, 2009).
- ↑ Return from Althaus forces CDU vote for Lieberknecht , Reuters, September 8, 2009
- ↑ Ramelow wants to save red-red-green by doing without ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Berliner Zeitung, September 17, 2009
- ↑ Ramelow wants to forego prime ministerial posts for red-red-green , Focus Online, September 18, 2009
- ↑ Matschie no longer wants to become head of government ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Badisches Tagblatt online, September 29, 2009
- ↑ Focus: Coalition - Ramelow: Prime Minister from the SPD possible
- ↑ Decided by a large majority ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Thuringian General, October 1, 2009
- ^ Thuringia - SPD and CDU start coalition negotiations , Focus Online, October 1, 2009
- ↑ Decision - Thuringian SPD relies on black and red ( memento of October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), MDR, October 1, 2009
- ^ SPD Thuringia: scandal, boos, appeals for desperation , Focus Online, October 10, 2009
- ↑ SPD base mobilizes against black and red , Zeit Online, October 10, 2009
- ^ Thuringia: SPD and CDU present coalition agreement , Focus Online, October 20, 2009
- ^ Between persistence and new openness , Ostthüringer Zeitung, October 26, 2009
- ^ SPD majority wants government with CDU , Ostthüringer Zeitung, October 26, 2009
- ↑ Christine Lieberknecht: Prime Minister's third attempt , Focus Online, October 30, 2009
- ^ Black and yellow majority in the Federal Council in danger , welt.de, August 30, 2009
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