Thuringia's Minister of Economic Affairs, Wolfgang Tiefensee, has often spread visions, even though he is a member of the SPD.

When he was the mayor of Leipzig, he wanted to bring the Olympic Games to the trade fair city.

Privatize the railways as Federal Minister of Transport.

On Tuesday, Tiefensee, who is also Vice Prime Minister of the Free State, appeared in front of the media after the cabinet meeting in Erfurt and said that Thuringia could “perhaps become a blueprint, a model for what could soon be the order of the day in other federal states when there are unclear majorities ".

Stefan Locke

Correspondent for Saxony and Thuringia based in Dresden.

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In fact, Thuringian state politics have had to imagine a lot in the past year and a half, but one thing is guaranteed not to be part of it: that what happens in Erfurt could even come close to being a role model. The long-propagated new election, which was canceled at the last minute on Friday, was only the latest of a series of negative events.

According to the state of affairs, the left, the SPD and the Greens will have to rule the Free State for another three years without a majority - and that in future under more stringent conditions, since the CDU has declared its cooperation with Red-Red-Green to be over with the summer break beginning next week.

Since the end of the war there has never been a permanent minority government in Germany without a firm tolerance partner, and on Tuesday the coalition members assured that everything would really have to be different for that.

It is "high time to find a constructive, factual and also contentious cooperation" for "a political model that moves the country forward," said Tiefensee in the direction of the state parliament.

"There he pinched"

Environment Minister Anja Siegesmund (Greens) said that they will now “regain lost trust through good practical work”. And Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow was confident: “We depend on looking for a majority in parliament, and I assume that we will find it. We are still able to act as a government. "

The coalition is missing four votes, which it will have to look for in the future either from the FDP, which previously had five members, or from among the 21 members of the CDU parliamentary group. The counting of votes, in turn, could already be on Friday, provided that the constructive vote of no confidence against Ramelow requested by the AfD parliamentary group should then be dealt with. This Wednesday, the MPs will decide whether the request will still be on the agenda of the current session. In Erfurt it was assumed on Tuesday that otherwise a special plenary would be necessary in the coming week. The AfD lets its parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke, who is being observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a right-wing extremist, run against the Prime Minister. However, Höcke needed 46 votes to be successful. The group itself has 22 MEPs.