In theGeneral election of March 1990, Fischer was elected as one of the 66PDS members of thenational parliament (Volkskammer).[1] She later recalled that she had not even been present at the party conference at which her name was placed on the party's candidate list, but she had participated in the round table discussions that took place in the run up toreunification, and assumed that she had been selected as a candidate because others had found her contributions memorable.[3] Followingreunification, which took place formally in October 1990, new elections were held inGermany. Under thesystem applied, thePDS (party) received only one seat based on its 2.4% share of the national vote, but they won a further 17 seats according to the regional vote, most of them in the"New Federal States" (former East Germany) where the party's overall vote share was 11.4%.[5] Ursula Fischer was one of two electedUpper legislative assembly (Bundestag) candidates from the party list for theThuringia electoral district.[2] Within the chamber she was elected parliamentary leader of thePDS group.[6]
She did not contest her Bundestag seat at the next national election, in1994. Instead she successfully stood for election to theregional parliament (Landtag) in her homestate ofThuringia.[5] Five years later, when the PDS increased its share of the vote in the Thuringian regional election, she stood again.[5] She sat as a member of the Landtag for ten years between 1994 and 2004.[3] During this time she was also a member of the regionalparty executive in theNordhausen district. Within the Landtag she was a member of the parliamentary committee on social affairs, family and health. However, in 2000 she was among those who resigned from thePDS,[7] and at the subsequent election, which took place in 2004, she was no longer a candidate.[1]
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