Social Policy Saxony

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Social Policy Saxony (short form: SP or SPS ) was a German, regional small party that ran for the state elections in Saxony in September 1994 .

Preconditions

In the first Saxon post-reunification state election in October 1990 , 160 seats had to be filled in the state parliament, half of which were determined as direct mandates over the 80 constituencies and the other half by proportional representation. Former member parties of the Democratic Bloc , new foundations from the time of the fall of the century and offshoots from the German political landscape all started . The CDU achieved an absolute majority and was able to book all direct mandates for itself.

In the four years leading up to the second state election, a new electoral law was passed that reduced the number of seats by a quarter to 120. In addition, the former block parties and some opposition parties have merged with their West German counterparts, other parties such as the German Beer Drinking Union had dissolved or did not start again due to a lack of members. Changed political and economic conditions since reunification have equalized the demands of some opposition parties from the time of transition, so that they had to expect voter migration before the election.

founding

The parties of the regional parliamentary group Forum - New Forum , Alliance 90 and Green Party - that joined in 1990 as a list connection , merged in 1991 to form Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Sachsen and came together a year and a half before the unification of the federal party with Bündnis 90. Some of the non-parliamentary members of the New Forum remained independent.

The Leipzig doctor Cornelia Matzke , a former member of the state spokesman's council of the New Forum, was one of ten members of the party alliance elected to the state parliament and deputy parliamentary group leader from 1990 to 1992. On February 21, 1994 she resigned from the parliamentary group and remained a non-attached member of the parliament until the end of the electoral term.

At a press conference in the summer of 1994, Matzke announced the founding of the Saxony Social Policy Party . At that time it had over 20 members, eleven of whom ran for state elections. The party competed against the sole ruling party, the CDU, as a “vote for a different policy”. However, Matzke did not think it was likely that the five percent hurdle would be jumped. The composition of people from the left - green spectrum led to the assessment as a splinter party .

State election 1994

For the state elections in September 1994 nine parties competed against each other, including Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen on list position 4, the New Forum on list position 7 and Social Policy Saxony on list position 9. The three parties combined 5.2% of the second votes; With 4.1%, 0.7% and 0.4%, they each missed the five percent hurdle. All of the direct mandates went to the CDU.

With 0.4% of the votes (783 of 187,375 valid votes cast, 380,965 eligible voters) in the city of Leipzig , the result in the hometown of co-founder Matzke was in the national average.

The party did not run for the 1999 state elections in Saxony .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Elections 1994 (II) . In: Sheets for German and international politics . No. 2/1995 . Blätter Verlagsgesellschaft, February 1995, p. 250, 252 ( blaetter.de ).
  2. ^ Andreas Schulze: Small parties in Germany - rise and fall of non-established political associations . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag , 2004, ISBN 3-322-81326-6 , p. 362 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Anke Rätsch: The Saxon State Parliament in the first two electoral periods (1990–1999): activity, professionalization and self-image of its members . Dissertation. Chemnitz 2008, p. 67 ( online as PDF ; 2.1 MB).
  4. ↑ a b Marcel Braumann: On the matter Have you already founded a party? - One SP (D) in Saxony . In: New Germany . July 22, 1994 ( neue-deutschland.de ).
  5. ^ Ulrich H. Brümmer: Party system and elections in Saxony: Continuity and change from 1990-2005 with special consideration of the state elections . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , 2006, ISBN 3-531-90298-9 , p. 152 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Inka Jörs: Post-Socialist Parties - Polish SLD and East German PDS in comparison . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006, ISBN 3-531-15119-3 , pp. 44 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ State elections 1994 and 1999 - result in Leipzig. (PDF; 1.6 MB) In: Statistisches Jahrbuch 2003. Stadt Leipzig, Office for Statistics and Elections, p. 216 , accessed on February 20, 2020 .