Thuringian state election, 2014

In the state elections in Thuringia in 2014, the members of the Thuringian state parliament are elected for a sixth term of office. You will - subject to a pre-term dissolution of the parliament during the current 5th parliamentary term - on September 14, 2014 held at the same time with the state elections in Brandenburg.

Election date

In accordance with § 18 Section 2 Thuringian electoral law for the parliamentary election day between the start of the 57th and the end of the 61st month must occur after the beginning of the current term. Since the parliament of the 5th legislature constituted September 29, 2009, the election date had consequently lie on a Sunday between 29 June and 29 October 2014. On 14 January 2014, the state government has designated September 14, 2014 day of the state election.

Starting position

As the last of the three major parties, the SPD placed firmly on a top candidate in the January 2014. Ambitions thereto notified in advance to both the current party chairman Christoph Matschie as well as the Minister of Social Affairs Heike Taubert. Furthermore, the (former) Minister of Economics Matthias Machning and the Erfurt Mayor Andreas Bausewein been rumored by the media such ambitions. While Machning after quarrels about possible double payments on government costs left the Thuringian State Policy, said Bausewein not to stand for a top candidate available. To avoid intra-party dispute to Matschie and Taubert agreed then that the Minister of Social Affairs will take up as top candidate. For the CDU Minister President Christine Dear servant and for the Left whose national president Bodo Ramelow takes.

Federal Political significance of the state election in relation to a possible red - red coalition against the background of the discussed after the parliamentary election in 2013 left open the SPD. Although the SPD came into East Germany several times in SPD- country governments, but they always made ​​this even the Prime Minister. Since the Left in Thuringia in the last election, however, always significantly more votes than the SPD gained, they would a red- red coalition only enter if they would ask the Prime Minister as the strongest party here, which the SPD has always refused. There is a choice in 2014 but closed it before the SPD no longer categorically to choose from, also a leftist candidate for prime minister. In this case, the first guided by the left state government would result in a federal state.

With the small parties of the entry into the state legislature is in question. It is possible for the Alliance 90/The Greens, the party fell in the general election in 2013 at 4.9% just below five percent. If necessary, there is a government of the Greens in the context of a then red-red- green state government also up for debate, as an alliance with the CDU, this should cut strong enough for black and green. Unlikely is a re-entry of the FDP in the Thuringian state parliament, it reached only 2.6 % of the vote in the general election 2013 ( 2009: 9.8%). Furthermore, a collection of alternative for Germany in the state parliament seems possible: you reached in the general election of 2013 in the country 6.2 % of the vote, but it lacks a national political profile, while the other parties have already ruled out a coalition with the AfD in Thuringia. Top candidate is Björn Höcke. The Free Voters and the NPD achieved in the last state election results of over 4%, at least the values ​​of the NPD rather go back ( Bundestag election in 2013: 3.2%)., So that a collection appears as 2009 likely Designated leading candidate of the NPD is Patrick Wieschke.

Top candidates of 2009-2014 represented in the Landtag parties

Bodo Ramelow, top candidate of the Left

Heike Taubert, SPD top candidate

Uwe Barth, FDP leadership candidate

Anja victories mouth, top candidate of the Green Party

Surveys

For the Sunday question the pollsters gave the following results: