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verkündet am 15. Juli 2020 gez.: Kunze Justizfachangestellte Urkundsbeamtin der Geschäftsstelle THÜRINGER VERFASSUNGSGERICHTSHOF VerfGH 2/20 Im Namen des Volkes URTEIL Im Verfahren der abstrakten Normenkontrolle der Fraktion der Alternative für Deutschland im Thüringer Landtag, vertreten durch den Fraktionsvorsitzenden, Jürgen-Fuchs-Straße 1, 99096 Erfurt, Antragstellerin, bevollmächtigt: Prof. Dr. iur. Dietrich Murswiek, L_____, _____ K_____, Anhörungsberechtigte: 1. Thüringer Landtag, vertreten durch die Präsidentin, Jürgen-Fuchs-Straße 1, 99096 Erfurt, VerfGH 2/20

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VerfGH Thuringia, 07/15/2020 - VerfGH 2/20

Judgment

Question Presented: Is a gender quota statute constitutional?

Alleged Acts: To increase the proportion of women in the state parliament, parties in Thuringia are to alternately occupy their candidate lists for state elections with men and women. According to the justification for the bill, the amendment should be described as a compensatory Funding measure and “for the enforcement of the individual rights of women candidates for fair, equal opportunity, democratic participation according to Art. 3 Para. 2, Art. 38.” Applicant requests for the parity clause to be void.

Summary: The court annulled the parity regulation. The core of the principle of democracy is popular sovereignty according to Art. 45 Sentence 1 ThürVerf, according to which all state authority emanates from the people. The people are the people of the state, that the sum of the nationals and in the Länder from the sum of the existing nationals. All nationals would have the same civil rights. Civic equality is the basis of the demo-critical principle of legitimation. Constraints on equality could only go through the principle of democracy itself or justified by other constitutional principles that would have the same status as the principle of democracy. Such restrictions have so far only been justified by the case law in relation to groups been viewed. The restriction of the equality of individuals genes are not at all in consideration. The parity law abolishes and eliminates civic equality thus democracy. The democracy principle only knows a unified nation as the subject of legitimation. The idea, to occupy the parliament on a gender-parity basis, reminds of conceptions of group-related representation as in the class, what with the principle of democracy is incompatible.

Conclusion: “The Parity Act is incompatible with the principle of democracy according to Art. 44 Para. 1Sentence 2 ThürVerf.”

Legal Issue(s)

Gender
Quotas

Applicable Law(s): Thurgan State Election Act

Region: Europe and Eurasia

Country: Germany

Language of Decision

German

Court: Constitutional Court

Election Type: Parliamentary

Date of decision: Jul 15, 2020

Geolocation

Latitude: 52.52

Longitude: 13.405

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Primary Documents

20-00002-U-A.pdf
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