Landtag of Thuringia

  • CDU 30
  • The Left 26
  • SPD 19
  • FDP 7
  • Green 6

The Thuringian state parliament is the National Parliament of Thuringia. Seat of the Landtag is Erfurt.

He takes with it the political system of Thuringia on the role of the legislature at the state level. Its constitutional basis are Articles 48 to 69 of the Constitution of the Free State of Thuringia. The Diet passed state laws, elects the prime minister of Thuringia and controls the work of government. Several buildings are used in the Arnstädter street from Parliament in Erfurt. Street side is dominated by a 1936-1939 erected by Wilhelm Pook neoclassical building complex in which offices are housed. Behind it are several new buildings from the years 1998 to 2003, including also the plenary hall, which hosts the meetings of Parliament. Furthermore, part of the 1950 to 1951 built skyscraper in the administration of former district Erfurt, colloquially called egg crate, to the buildings of Parliament. Today it also serves as an office building.

In the selected 30 August 2009 5 five parliamentary parties are represented. The CDU takes on a 30 seats, making it the strongest party; The left has 26 seats, and the SPD parliamentary group consists of 19 deputies. For the first time since the first parliamentary term also includes the FDP (7 seats ) and Alliance 90/The Greens (6 seats ) back to the Diet.

Parliament President is in the current parliamentary term, the CDU deputy and previous Deputy Prime Minister Birgit Diezel.

Suffrage

The Parliament is elected for five years. Are entitled to vote all Germans who are 18 years old on election day and at least three months in Thuringia residing or staying usual. The election of 88 deputies carried out according to the principles of the people associated with choice of proportional representation. In 44 constituencies 44 constituency members are elected directly; the other half of the deputies elected on the national party lists. Win a party or a constituency association, less than 5 percent of the vote, they can not send deputies in the parliament ( five-percent hurdle). However, the seats are not eliminated, but are - distributed to the other parties - depending on their strength. This happened for example in the state elections in 2004 with a total of 16.4% of the votes cast.

Election results since 1990

From the five, held since 1990 federal election, the CDU always emerged as the strongest force. After a CDU / FDP coalition from 1990 to 1994 and a Grand Coalition 1994-1999 Thuringia was ruled from 1999 to 2009 by the CDU alone. The last state election was held on 30 August 2009, since then ruled again a coalition of CDU and SPD.

See also: Election Results and Provincial Governments in Thuringia

President of the Thuringian Landtag

Interim president

Following Members opened the inaugural meetings of the Thuringian Landtag as interim president:

Deputies lists

  • List of members of the Thuringian State Parliament ( 1 Term)
  • List of members of the Thuringian State Parliament (2nd Term)
  • List of members of the Thuringian State Parliament (3rd Term)
  • List of members of the Thuringian Landtag (4th Term)
  • List of members of the Thuringian State Parliament ( 5th term )

Predecessor Diets

  • The Thuringian Parliament during the Weimar Republic is represented in the Thuringian Parliament ( Weimar Republic).
  • The Thuringian Parliament during the time of the SBZ and DDR is described in the Thuringian Parliament ( 1946-1952 ).

Parliament Building

On the grounds of the Thuringian state parliament, there are three buildings:

  • The fraction of the Thuringian state parliament building on the street Arnstadt from 1939
  • The skyscraper of the Thuringian state parliament at the Johann - Sebastian -Bach -Straße 1951
  • The function of the Thuringian state parliament building on the Jürgen Fuchs Street from 2002 with the new plenary hall

In August 2009, the Parliament President Dagmar Schipanski has unveiled a commemorative plaque for three at the time of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR pursued state politicians in the foyer of Deputies building: Hermann Becker ( LDP), Brill (SPD) and Hugo Dornhofer ( CDU).

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