Brandenburg state election, 2004
- Brandenburg state election, 2004
The Brandenburg state election, 2004, was conducted on September 19, 2004, to elect members to the Landtag of Brandenburg, the state legislature of Brandenburg.
Issues and Campaign
Before Bandenburg, the SPD had lost many state elections, what was connected to Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010 policy, which was a reaction to the unemployment problems of Germany. The establishing of a lower welfare payment ("Arbeitslosengeld 2") for people unemployed for more than a year had driven many voters to the left Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) party in the east, to the new-founded WASG or away from the elections at all. So, the CDU had won more and more states. In Brandenburg, minister-president Matthias Platzeck (SPD) and his partner Jörg Schönbohm (CDU) supported the reforms and the Arbeitslosengeld 2 (also called "Hartz IV" after an expert who had invented it). Against this campaigned the PDS and the far-right German People's Union (DVU), which had gained seats in the Landtag in 1999 for the first time.
Results
Post-election
Matthias Platzeck (SPD) remained Minister-President, in an SPD-CDU coalition.
ources
* [http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/e/index_e.htm The Federal Returning Officer]
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