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2003 Hessian State Election
The 2003 Hessian state election was held on 2 February 2003 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The incumbent coalition government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Roland Koch was returned with an increased majority. The CDU recorded a 5.4% swing in its favour, winning an absolute majority of seats. It subsequently formed government alone, with Roland Koch continuing in office. Parties The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Hesse. Opinion polling Election result , - ! rowspan=2 colspan=2, Party ! colspan=3, Constituency ! colspan=4, Party list ! rowspan=2, Totalseats ! rowspan=2, +/- , - ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Christian Democratic Union , 1,411,800 , 51.99 , 53 , 1,333,863 , 48.77 , +5.36 , 3 , 56 , 6 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Social Democratic Party , 898,813 , 33.10 , 2 , 795,576 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Landtag Of Hesse
The Landtag of Hesse () is the unicameral parliament of the State of Hesse in the Federal Republic of Germany. It convenes in the Stadtschloss in Wiesbaden. As a legislature it is responsible for passing laws at the state level and enacting the budget. Its most important function is to elect and control the state government. The constitution of the State of Hesse describes the role of the Landtag in sections 75 to 99. The Landtag currently consists of 133 members of five parties. There is a coalition between the Christian Democratic Union and the SPD. The President of the Landtag is Astrid Wallmann and the Minister-President of Hesse is Boris Rhein. The members are elected via a mixed-member proportional representation system, with a minimum of 5% vote share to receive any seats. The smallest allowed size of Landtag is 110 members (without overhang and levelling seats), of which 55 are elected first-past-the-post in single-member constituencies and others are elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ruth Wagner
Ruth Wagner (born 18 October 1940) is a German politician for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and was from 1999 to 2003 deputy prime minister of the federal state of Hesse. Life and politics Wagner was born 1940 in the German town of Riedstadt and studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt in order to become a teacher. Wagner entered the liberal FDP in 1971 and became a member of the Landtag of Hesse, the federal state diet of Hesse in 1978 until 1999. From 1999 to 2003 Wagner headed the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts The Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture (), abbreviated HMWK, is a university and culture ministry in Hesse, Germany. Since 2024, the minister is Timon Gremmels. History Originally called ''Hessisches Ministerium f� .... References Living people 1940 births Free Democratic Party (Germany) politicians 20th-century German women politicians 21st-century German women politicians Ministers of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elections In Hesse
An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary association and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Socialist Alternative (Germany)
Socialist Alternative can refer to any of several left-wing, left-wing politics political organizations, many affiliated to the International Socialist Alternative or Fourth International (post-reunification), Reunified Fourth International. See also *Revolutionary Socialist Alternative (Bolivia), Alternativa Socialista Revolucionaria, Bolivian section of the CWI *New Socialist Alternative (India), New Socialist Alternative, Indian section of the CWI *Socialist Alternative Future (Czech Republic), Socialistická alternativa Budoucnost, Czech section of the CWI *Socialistische Partij Anders, the Belgian Flemish social-democratic party *Socialist Voice (New Zealand), previously known as Socialist Alternative *''Socialist Alternatives'', a defunct political magazine linked with the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency {{disambig Political party disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
The Socialist Equality Party (, SGP) is a minor Trotskyist political party in Germany. History It was founded in 1971 as the Federation of Socialist Workers () by West German supporters of Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League and was renamed the Party for Social Equality, Section of the Fourth International (, PSG) in 1997. On 18–19 February 2017, the party adopted its present name. Also in 2017 the SGP won a defamation lawsuit filed against them by Humboldt University professor Jörg Baberowski : the Hamburg district court ruled that the party's right to freedom of speech allowed them to accuse Baberowski of a "distortion of history". The court also ruled that the SGP was able to defend their characterization of Baberowski as a "right-wing extremist" by referencing his statements about Adolf Hitler with a specific example being him saying, "Hitler was not cruel. He did not want people to talk about the extermination of the Jews at his table”. Another incident occurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität
Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (BüSo), or the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, is a German political party founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the widow of U.S. political activist Lyndon LaRouche. The BüSo is part of the worldwide LaRouche movement which, according to the ''Berliner Zeitung'', operates in Germany as the Schiller Institute, the LaRouche Youth Movement, and the BüSo. The newspaper wrote in 2007 that the movement had around 300 followers in Germany at that time.Nordhausen, Frank"A Mother's Investigations" ''Berliner Zeitung'', April 4, 2007, page 3. The BüSo is the third in a series of small parties founded in Germany by the movement. The earlier two, now defunct, were the ''Europäische Arbeiterpartei'' (the European Labor Party), which was active in the 1970s and early 1980s and still exists in some Scandinavian countries, and the ''Patrioten für Deutschland'' (Patriots for Germany), active during the mid 1980s to early 1990s. Federal state Associations Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ecological Democratic Party
The Ecological Democratic Party (, ÖDP) is a green conservative and ecologist minor party in Germany. The ÖDP was founded in 1982. The strongest level of voting support for the ÖDP is in Bavaria, where in federal state elections they have remained stable with 1.6-2% of the votes since 1990, and at municipal level have increased their mandate count in 2014 from 320 to around 380. The ÖDP is a member of the World Ecological Parties. History The Ecological Democratic Party is a green party that is active throughout Germany and has its clear focus in Bavaria. The party's rise is closely linked to its founder, the politician and environmentalist Herbert Gruhl. Gruhl was Member of the Bundestag from 1969 to 1980 and member of CDU. The founding of ÖDP dates back on the ecological movement in the 1970s. Gruhl gained attention by publishing a best-seller in 1975: "Ein Planet wird geplündert" (A Planet is Being Plundered). In the book he criticized the growth-oriented econom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
German Communist Party
The German Communist Party (, ) is a communist party in Germany. The DKP supports far-left positions and was an observer member of the European Left before leaving in February 2016. History The DKP considered itself a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which had been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956 for its aggressively militant opposition to the West German constitution. The new party was formed on 25 September 1968. The foundation was preceded by talks between former KPD functionaries and Gustav Heinemann, the West German minister of justice, who explained to them that while a refounding of a banned party was not legally possible, Communists were free to form an entirely new party. Even though the close links to the banned KPD made the new party vulnerable to be declared illegal, no such declaration was requested by the German government as West German authorities were liberalizing the attitude towards the communist bloc and East Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Party Of Bible-abiding Christians
The Party of Bible-abiding Christians (, PBC) was a conservative evangelical minor right-wing political party in Germany. It was founded in 1989 during a convent of the Federation of Pentecostal Churches to serve as political arm of the Christian right in Germany. It was against same-sex marriage and legality of abortion. It supported a reference to God in the European Constitution and it strongly supported Israel. In March 2015, the PBC merged with the Party for Labour, Environment and Family (AUF) into the Alliance C – Christians for Germany. Most members were from Württemberg or Saxony and were members or sympathizers of what Germans call "Freikirche" ( Free Church), i.e., Protestants from Pentecostal and Charismatic sects, which are not affiliated with the large Lutheran Protestant Church in Germany. The party's success, however, was very limited on the federal and state levels of government because it never reached the "5% hurdle" of votes cast necessary to get into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Feminist Party Of Germany
The Feminist Party of Germany () is a political party in Germany. In the 2005 German federal election, the party won 0.1% of the popular vote and no seats. They repeated this result at the 2019 European Parliament election in Germany The 2019 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 26 May 2019, electing the List of members of the European Parliament for Germany, 2019–2024, 96 members of the national Germany (European Parliament constituency), Germany constitue .... The feminist Party of Germany is a founding member of the Feminists United Network Europe (FUN Europe). On October 30, 2010, the first European Conference of Feminist Parties took place in Valencia, Spain. An umbrella organization of feminist parties in Europe was founded. The Initiativa Feminista from Spain, the Partia Kobiet (women's party) from Poland and the Feministiskt initiativ from Sweden together with the feminist party DIE FRAUEN founded a coordination council as the umbrella organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Party For A Rule Of Law Offensive
The Party for a Rule of Law Offensive, Rule of Law State Offensive Party,, Party for the Promotion of the Rule of Law, Law and Order Offensive Party, or Party of Law and Order Offensive (),''Rechtsstaat'' is each a translation of a German legal concept, that is closely related to but not fully identical to the rule of law. commonly known as the "Schill party" from 2000 to 2003, was a minor right-wing populist party in Germany, mainly active in the state of Hamburg, that ran on a platform of law and order. It was founded in July 2000 by the judge Ronald Schill and was temporarily very successful in Hamburg, winning 19.4% of the votes in the 2001 state election and joining a coalition government. After the centre-right coalition collapsed and Schill left the party in 2003, it quickly lost support. Attempts to expand to other states or the federal level were unsuccessful. It may therefore be considered a " flash party" or protest party. Name Initially it used the acronym PRO but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
