Magdeburg model

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As Magdeburg model was SPD -guided minority government indicated that from 1994 to 2002 in Saxony-Anhalt (the state capital Magdeburg officiated). Since Prime Minister Reinhard Höppner did not have his own majority in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , he was dependent on the support ("tolerance") of the PDS . From 2001 to 2002, Berlin was also governed temporarily according to the Magdeburg model.

Magdeburg model in Saxony-Anhalt

In the state election in 1994 in Saxony-Anhalt, the former lost CDU / FDP - coalition ( black-yellow ) of Prime Minister Christoph Bergner its majority because the FDP, the five-percent hurdle missed and the CDU narrowly became the strongest ahead of the SPD force. The SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen also did not jointly achieve a majority of the state parliament mandates. Therefore, the top candidates of the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Reinhard Höppner and Hans-Jochen Tschiche , decided to form a red-green minority government tolerated by the PDS . By means of this constellation, Höppner was elected Prime Minister on July 21, 1994 in the third ballot; the majority of the representatives of the PDS abstained.

The Magdeburg model was continued after the state elections in 1998 , although this time Alliance 90 / Greens failed to make it into the state parliament again. The PDS then tolerated a minority government of the SPD against the divided opposition of the CDU and DVU . In 2002 Höppner's government was finally replaced by a CDU / FDP coalition of the new Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU).

See also

Magdeburg model in Berlin

In Berlin in June 2001 the grand coalition of the CDU and SPD, which had existed since 1991, broke up as a result of the “ Berlin banking scandal ”. Until an early election to the Berlin House of Representatives , Klaus Wowereit ruled as the governing mayor of a transitional government made up of the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, which was also dependent on the support of the PDS: the parliamentary groups that supported the Wowere already minority government had 60 seats in the Parliament opposite 76 seats of the CDU. In the election of the Senate on June 16, 2001, the 33 MPs of the PDS parliamentary group largely voted with the SPD and the Greens, so that all the proposed candidates were elected with results between 85 and 91 votes.

After the House of Representatives election on October 21, 2001 , after lengthy negotiations, a red-red majority senate was formed from the SPD and PDS in January 2002 and the PDS, which previously only “tolerated”, was now actively involved in the government with three senators.

literature

  • Stefan Schieren: Five years of the “Magdeburg Model”. A mixed balance , in: Jürgen Wolf [ua] (Ed.): Are we running out of air? Perspektiven für das Land , Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-89812-022-8 , pp. 29–40. (Yearbook for politics and society in Saxony-Anhalt)
  • Christian Starck : Stable minority government as a secret majority government. On the “Magdeburg Model” , in: Jörn Ipsen [ua] (Ed.): Law, State, Common Good. Festschrift for Dietrich Rauschning , Heymann, Cologne [et al.] 2001, ISBN 3-452-24672-8 , pp. 157-172.
  • Hendrik Träger / Sven Leunig: Cross-level effects of coalition negotiations in the federal states using the example of the "Magdeburg Model" (1994) , in: Julia Oberhofer / Roland Sturm (ed.): Coalition governments and party competition in the federal states (= series of publications by the Central Institute for Regional Research of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Vol. 6), Allitera Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86906-142-9 , pp. 85-104.
  • Elrid Wollkopf-Dittmann: The "Magdeburg Model". Between everyday parliamentary life and public representation , in: Klaus-Bernhard Roy (Ed.): Elections 2002 in Saxony-Anhalt. Initial conditions, framework for action, alternative decisions , Leske + Budrich , Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3509-2 , pp. 31–46.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Semkat: The Magdeburg model and other bending. In: The world . April 16, 1998. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ Bernhard Honnigfort: Magdeburg model and Heidemord. In: FR.de. Frankfurter Rundschau GmbH, June 18, 2010, accessed on August 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Election of the Prime Minister; Swearing in of the Prime Minister. (PDF; 549 kB) In: Plenary minutes 2/1. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, July 21, 1994, pp. 9–26 , accessed on August 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Election of the governing mayor of Berlin and the mayors and other members of the Senate. (PDF; 208 kB) In: plenary minutes 14/29. Berlin House of Representatives, June 16, 2001, pp. 1613–1620 , accessed on August 6, 2017 .