5% block

The 5% -BLOCK (short name: 5% -BLOCK ) was an electoral alliance of political groups to the right of the CDU , which ran unsuccessfully in the 1976 federal election.

history

At the end of 1975 a number of small parties on the right edge of the political spectrum discussed an electoral alliance in order to jointly overcome the five percent hurdle in upcoming elections . On December 6, 1975, they met in Heidelberg and founded the Working Group of Voting Communities, Independent Parties and Citizens' Initiatives (AWUB) . Among other things, representatives of the right-wing extremist Association of Constitutional Forces (VVK), the right-wing extremist Combat League of German Soldiers (KDS), the Free Social Union (FSU) , the European Federalist Party (EFP) , the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) , the “right-wing bloc” discussed together “And the World Association for the Protection of Life (WSL) . No agreement was reached. Nevertheless, a working group was formed from the AWUB under the direction of Otto F. Schönbeck, which in 1976 launched the 5% block (5% block party) .

The program was the rejection of the parties represented in the Bundestag , the advocacy of a “Europe of Nations” and a take up of the environmental and life protection issues . Since the political differences predominated, the organization did not manage to set up regional associations. The number of members was about 200.

For the 1976 federal election, the 5% block, described by Richard Stöss as an extremely right-wing organization, joined with only one state list with six candidates in Bavaria and five constituency candidates (three in Bavaria, including Erika Herbst as a direct candidate without a state list place in the federal constituency of Erlangen , and one each in Baden -Wuerttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia ). He achieved 985 first votes and 2940 second votes (<0.01%).

Because of its unsuccessfulness, the 5% bloc disbanded shortly afterwards without leaving a successor organization.

See also

• Action group fourth party with a similar program.

literature

• Richard Stöss : Independent Workers' Party , in: ders. (Ed.): Party Handbook. the parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980 . Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1984 p. 2352 footnote 55 ISBN 3-531-11592-8 .
• Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999 . Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 1999 p. 111 ISBN 3-7890-5928-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Stöss, Party Handbook. the parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980 . Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1984 p. 2352
2. ↑ R. Stöss, Party Handbook, Introduction (table of anti-democratic parties ), p. 242.
3. ↑ Parliament No. 39-40 of September 25, 1976, p. 23.