You may already have noticed that yesterday the ballots were counted. There was an unforeseen huge victory for the Green university group with 40.05 % of StuPa votes and 11 seats in parliament. From now on, the Green university group will be by far the strongest university group and will be strongly involved in the next General Students’ Committee.
But now to our performance: Although we missed our 4th seat in the students’ parliament again, we achieved with 380 votes for us in parliament as many votes, as never before, even though we were the last legislature not part of the General Students’ Committee and although we have driven a clearly radical left election campaign. With this we have further improved our election results to the present day. With these 11.56 % and three seats, we are again the third strongest force.
The entry into the senate, we have unfortunately missed. As in previous years, 1 candidate of the social democratic list, 1 of the Green list and 1 of the electoral alliance got these seats.
We regard as a great success that, for the first time in two years, no far-right university group is more present in parliament. After the list of the party “Alternative for Germany” (“Alternative für Deutschland”, short: “AfD) in the previous legislature and the list of “Frischer Wind” (see also the article on the website of the research group Kassel about “Frischer Wind Kassel”) in the last legislature, both these two far-right university lists, which we had always accompanied critically, didn’t survive their first legislature in students’ parliament. This shows that it is by no means futile to fight against the current global shift to the right!
Overall, we are satisfied with the outcome of the elections. In the coming days, we will conduct coalition negotiations. We will, of course, keep you up to date on our facebook page.
