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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Holtmann, Everhard

Titel

Die sachsen-anhaltische Landtagswahl vom 26. März 2006: Magdeburg übernimmt das Berliner Format des „halben Machtwechsels

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2007-01, Vol.38 (1), p.51-67

Ort / Verlag

NOMOS Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite promising poll data the SPD was not able to substantially improve its disastrous result of the last state parliament election in 2002 in Saxony-Anhalt. Once again the CDU gained most votes. Its coalition partner FDP, however, lost half of its vote share and could not gain enough seats to continue the former coalition. The Linkspartei. PDS remained second. The Greens and the right-extremist DVU did not manage to overcome the five percent hurdle. Why did the SPD fail again in Saxony-Anhalt – even though the party was so successful on the very same day in the RhinelandPalatinate state parliament election? Federal and regional motivations of voters' decisions mutually intensified to the disadvantage of SPD: The voters' confidence in the SPD's ability to successfully tackle problems in economy, labor market and future was very low in Saxony-Anhalt as well as on the national level. Even the rather good personal reputation of the SPD challenger to the CDU Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer could not compensate this double gap of lack of confidence in the SPD's competence. In the end, CDU and SPD formed a grand coalition.