In the General election of March 1990, Fischer was elected as one of the 66 PDS members of the national 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 to reunification, and assumed that she had been selected as a candidate because others had found her contributions memorable.[3] Following reunification, which took place formally in October 1990, new elections were held in Germany. Under the system applied, the PDS (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 elected Upper legislative assembly (Bundestag) candidates from the party list for the Thuringia electoral district.[2] Within the chamber she was elected parliamentary leader of the PDS group.[6]
She did not contest her Bundestag seat at the next national election, in 1994. Instead she successfully stood for election to the regional parliament (Landtag) in her home state of Thuringia.[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 membership of the regional party executive in the Nordhausen 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 the PDS,[7] and at the subsequent election, which took place in 2004, she was no longer a candidate.[1]
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