Live weblog Prime Minister election in Saxony: Difficult beginning place for Michael Kretschmer | EUROtoday

On Dec 18, 2024

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From the angle of constitutional lawyer Michael Brenner, the election of the Saxon Prime Minister should be There isn’t any risk of a no vote for a number of candidates. According to dpa, Brenner wrote in a report commissioned by State Parliament President Alexander Dierks (CDU) that there would even be “compelling constitutional reasons” in opposition to granting such an possibility. The constitutional expectation is to elect a minority prime minister, and shouldn’t be undermined by the blocking potential of the no possibility. The related article within the Saxon structure goals to “enable the formation of a government, not prevent it”. Including a no possibility would run counter to this, as Brenner writes. Brenner holds the chair for German and European constitutional and administrative regulation on the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

DThe Green group introduced on Monday that it will submit a movement for the choice to vote no. The skilled commissioned by the parliamentary group, Fabian Michl, junior professor on the University of Leipzig, got here to the conclusion that this must also be attainable with multiple candidate. The state parliament had already introduced on Monday that the state parliament president didn’t share this view. The state parliament introduced {that a} no vote is just meant within the occasion that just one applicant runs in a poll. The MPs don’t have any proper to particularly stop the election of a Prime Minister by voting no.

The no votes can be notably related within the second spherical of voting as a result of then an absolute majority of 61 votes is now not required, however solely a easy majority. Whoever will get extra votes than the opposite choices mixed wins the election; abstentions are usually not counted.

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