Alternatively, the Democratic Reform Party
| Alternative Democratic Reform Party Parti de réforme alternatif et démocratique Alternative Democratic Reform Party |
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| Party leader | Jean Schoos |
| Secretary General | Alex Penning |
| vice-chairman | Gilles Carlizzi
Mario Daubenfeld |
| State Treasurer | Detlef Xhonneux |
| Honorary Chairman | Robert Mehlen |
| founding | May 12, 1987 |
| Place of foundation | Center Convict , Luxembourg City |
| Headquarters | 25, rue Notre-Dame, L-2240 Luxembourg |
| Youth organization | ADRenalin, déi jonk ADR |
| newspaper | De Pefferkär |
| Alignment |
National conservatism Right-wing populism Economic liberalism Christian rights EU skepticism |
| Colours) | Red, white, blue |
| Parliament seats |
4/60 |
| Government grants | € 260,000 (as of 2011) |
| Number of members | approx. 2,000 (as of 2011) |
| European party | European Conservatives and Reformists Party (EKR) |
| Website | www.adr.lu |
The Alternative Democratic Reform Party ( German Alternative Democratic Reform Party , French Parti de réforme alternatif et démocratique ), ADR for short , is a right-wing conservative , Catholic - fundamentalist and right-wing populist political party in Luxembourg , which was founded on May 12, 1987 as an Action Committee 5/6 Pension for Everyone ( Luxembourg Aktiounskomitee 5/6 Pensioun fir jiddfereen , French Comité d'action 5/6 de retraite pour tous ) was founded in the Center Convict . It has had its current name since the National Congress in Strassen on April 2, 2006.
The party changed its name several times in the course of its history, so it named itself on October 12, 1989 in Action Committee 5/6 (Luxembourgish Aktiounskomitee 5/6 , French Comité d'action 5/6 ) and on November 22, 1992 in Action Committee for Democracy and pension justice (Luxembourg Aktiounskomitee fir Demokratie a Rentegerechtegkeet , French Comité d'action pour la démocratie et les pensions ).
history
In December 1986, the neutral trade union Lëtzebuerg called on all workers' organizations in the private sector in a joint action for more equity in pensions. But after the announcement of a pension reform the Minister of Social Affairs was not inclined to advocate a single national insurance with the same rights and obligations, which is why on March 28, 1987 a protest demo with the title "5/6 Pensioun fir jiddfereen" took place and a short time later the Aktiounskomitee 5 / 6 Pensioun fir jiddfereen founded. The Luxembourg Association of Pensioners and Invalids and the Union of Journalists Luxembourg also took part in this March rally. On the occasion of the situation there was a collection of signatures in which 10,000 people took part.
The ADR emerged from a one-issue party, which with a single demand, namely same high pensions in all industry sectors, took on the Luxembourg parliamentary elections on 18 June 1989, with 7.13% for the first time to the Luxembourg Parliament was elected. In a protest action by the party and some other MPs under the motto Gläich Rechter fir all Deputéiert ( German "Equal rights for all MPs"), which took place by occupying the stairs of the parliament, the ADR was excluded from ten public sessions from parliament. On December 2, 1990, an expulsion procedure was filed against party member Josy Simon . On December 8, 1991 Robert Mehlen was confirmed in office for the first time as the new national president.
On June 15, 1992, the ADR MPs handed over a list of petitions with 8,310 signatures to the President of Parliament and called for a referendum on the introduction of national insurance in Luxembourg. On July 6, 1992, the ADR again signed a campaign in favor of holding a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . On 22 March 1993, the former moved CSV - deputy Fernand Rau about the ADR. In the following municipal elections on October 10, 1993, she entered seven municipal councils. In the parliamentary elections on June 2, 1994, the party achieved 9% of all valid votes, so that it was represented by five members in the Luxembourg parliament. The ADR achieved its best election result in the Luxembourg parliamentary elections on June 3, 1999 with 11.31% of the valid votes and seven members of parliament. In the European elections, the ADR missed out on parliament. On July 7, 1999, the ADR youth section “ADR youth” was formally founded. In the same year the ADR managed to get into ten municipal councils in the municipal elections on October 10, 1999.
Due to the election success of 1999, the ADR decided to publish its own party magazine. In December 2000, a new edition of De Pefferkär ( German “Das Pfefferkorn”) was officially launched. In July 2001, the party decided to launch a nationwide poster campaign along the state roads to the pension table. This was banned for reasons of traffic safety. As a result, on June 12, 2001, a protest was held in front of the Chambre des Députés .
In the parliamentary elections on June 13, 2004, the ADR received 9.95% of all votes and thus lost two seats in parliament. On March 12, 2005, it was the only party to oppose the EU Constitutional Treaty.
In the local elections on October 9, 2005, the party also suffered a drop in votes and was only represented in five instead of ten councils. In April 2006, the former joined deputies Aly Jaerling From the ADR, which the party's status as Group lost and then only one parliamentary group was formed.
On March 13, 2008, the ADR signed a cooperation agreement with the Association des Hommes du Luxembourg (AHL). This enabled the ADR to also have members of the men's association run for election on the electoral list. The party entered the race for the 2009 elections under the motto Léisungen fir Lëtzebuerg ( German "Solutions for Luxembourg"). With a total of six top candidates, the ADR had also run for the Luxembourg seats in the European Parliament, but did not move into it.
In the state elections of June 7, 2009 , the ADR achieved 8.1% of all votes, which corresponded to a loss of 1.9% compared to the previous year and lost the seat of party president Robert Mehlen in the east, which also resulted in the formation of a parliamentary group again failed. Mehlen was re-elected party president on March 20, 2010, and General Secretary Roy Reding was also confirmed in his office. In the municipal elections on October 9, 2011, the ADR managed to get into six municipal councils.
In the course of a protracted wing fight between the more left-liberal and the conservative camp, there were continuous resignations and resignations from October 2011 over a period of over a year.
At the annual National Congress on March 25, 2012, the ADR elected Fernand Kartheiser to succeed Robert Mehlen, a new national president from the Catholic-conservative camp. At his side, the party members elected Jean Schoos to the office of General Secretary and a quartet of Vice Presidents consisting of Jean Colombera , Marceline Goergen, Marc Gatti and Roy Reding . In June 2012, two high-ranking members of the youth organization ADRenalin, déi jonk ADR were given the choice of resigning from their posts and all functions or of being expelled from the party after, according to ADR, both had spread anti-Islamic and right-wing extremist ideas on the Internet .
The 25th anniversary of the party was celebrated on November 8, 2012, in which Grand Duke Henri also took part. This was followed by the resignation of the MP Jacques-Yves Henckes, who no longer wanted to support the right-wing conservative party line led by National President Fernand Kartheiser, whereupon Kartheiser himself resigned; Honorary President Robert Mehlen temporarily took over the chairmanship. Vice-President Jean Colombera resigned a few days later, as did two other members of the National Board.
After the internal disputes had been resolved, in June 2014, shortly after the European elections , General Secretary Liliana Miranda, a high-ranking party member with a heavy media interest, resigned. The post then remained vacant until the next National Congress.
On March 22, 2015, Alex Penning was elected as the only candidate for the new General Secretary.
Political orientation
The ADR, which was formerly known as the “Pensioners Party” because of its initial focus on pension justice, sees itself as a conservative alternative to the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) and the Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP).
The ADR is committed to the preservation and promotion of the Luxembourgish language in contrast to the officially dominant French. The Eurosceptic and anti- federalist party is classified as right-wing conservative , Catholic - fundamentalist and right-wing populist .
The student association Union nationale des étudiant-es du Luxembourg warns that the party is stirring up “ nationalist resentment in those sections of the population who are involved in government policies with its demand for“ detention centers ”in the event of abuse of the right to asylum and the reservation of the right to vote for Luxembourg citizens not find again and feel misunderstood. With the creation of an artificial opposition between Luxembourgers and foreigners, latent racism can also be promoted ”.
After the election of the “vehemently anti-Islamic and anti-feminist ” Fernand Kartheiser as the new ADR national president in 2012, some party members feared , according to a report by journalist Romain Hilgert in the weekly newspaper d'Lëtzebuerger Land , that the ADR “will actually become that right-wing extremist party as which their opponents usually wrongly portrayed ”.
organization
European connections
Exploratory talks on the part of the ADR led on November 12, 2001 to cooperation with a political group in the European Parliament , the Union for a Europe of Nations (UEN); From June 25, 2002, the ADR was a member of the associated national-conservative European party Alliance for a Europe of Nations (AEN). After the dissolution of the UEN after the European elections in 2009 , the ADR sought cooperation in the new group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) initiated by the British Conservatives . Represented by General Secretary Roy Reding and MP Fernand Kartheiser , the party joined the right-wing conservative European party Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) on June 8, 2010 .
Youth organization ADRenalin
The ADR youth section "ADR-Jugend" or "ADR-J" for short, which was formally founded on July 17, 1999, changed its name to "ADRenalin, déi jonk ADR" ( German "ADRenalin, the young ADR").
ADRenalin has been a member of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists - European Young Conservatives (EYC) since December 4th, 2011 .
Since November 2010 the youth organization has been publishing its own magazine with the title " Peperoni - de Pefferkär fir d'Jugend".
ADR women's section
The current president of the ADR women's section is Sylvie Mischel.
Election results
Overview of the parliamentary election results
| date | motto | percentage | MPs | Percentage +/- |
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| June 18, 1989 | 7.13% | 4 MPs | + 7.13% | |
| June 2, 1994 | 9.00% | 5 MPs | + 1.87% | |
| June 3, 1999 | 11.31% | 7 MPs | + 2.31% | |
| June 13, 2004 | "Competent a Consistent" | 9.95% | 5 MPs | - 1.36% |
| June 7, 2009 | "Léisungen fir Lëtzebuerg" | 8.13% | 4 MPs | - 1.82% |
| 20th October 2013 | "Éierlech, social, lëtzebuergesch" | 6.64% | 3 MPs | - 1.49% |
| October 14, 2018 | "Är Stëmm fir Lëtzebuerg" | 8.28% | 4 MPs | + 1.64% |
Overview of the European election results
| date | percentage | MPs | Percentage +/- |
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| June 12, 1994 | 6.90% | no mandate | + 6.90% |
| June 13, 1999 | 8.98% | no mandate | + 2.08% |
| June 12, 2004 | 8.00% | no mandate | - 0.98% |
| June 7, 2009 | 7.39% | no mandate | - 0.60% |
| May 25, 2014 | 7.53% | no mandate | + 0.14% |
Overview of the municipal council election results
| date | motto | Local councils | Locality |
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| October 10, 1993 | 7 municipal councils | Differdingen , Esch an der Alzette , Hesperingen , Junglinster , | |
| October 10, 1999 | 10 municipal councils |
Bascharage , Differdingen , Dudelange , Esch an der Alzette , Hesperingen ,
Junglinster , Luxembourg City , Monnerich , Schifflingen , Sassenheim |
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| October 9, 2005 | "Liewesqualitéit fir Jiddereen" | 5 municipal councils | Luxembourg City , Monnerich , Sassenheim , Frisingen , Wintger |
| October 9, 2011 | "Close Sprooch to denger Gemeng!" | 4 municipal councils | Pétange , Wintger , Dudelange , Luxembourg City |
| October 8, 2017 | "D'Alternativ for Är Gemeng" | 7 municipal councils | Bettembourg , Feulen , Colmar-Berg , Wintger , Dudelange , Luxembourg City , Berdorf |
National presidents at a glance
| Surname | period |
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| Gaston Gibéryen | 1987-1989 |
| John Bram | 1989-1991 |
| Robert Mehlen | 1991-2012 |
| Fernand Kartheiser | 2012–2012 |
| Robert Mehlen | 2012-2013 |
| Jean Schoos | 2013– |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zlv.lu/spip/spip.php?article4766
- ↑ a b erwaertiges-amt.de: Luxembourg , March 2013
- ↑ a b c d e zlv.lu: ADR drifts to the right , April 5, 2011
- ↑ Tageblatt.lu -Article "ADRenalin is at the end".
- ↑ Lessentiel.lu -Article "Too far to the right for the ADR?".
- ↑ Tageblatt.lu: adr-Vice-President leaves the boat ( Memento from December 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Statement on the resignation of Jean Colombera.
- ↑ Wort.lu -Article "Exodus at the ADR continues!".
- ↑ L'essentiel: Too far to the right for the ADR?
- ↑ RTL.lu: ADR wëll six vu members, déi um rietse Bord sinn, separate ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ revue.lu: The molting of the snake ( Memento of February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Meris Sehovic: Answer from Fernand Kartheiser (ADR) to my open letter of July 13th ( memento of January 9th, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ wort.lu article "The ADR celebrated 25th birthday."
- ↑ wort.lu: “ Heavy discussions” at the National Board of ADR , December 18, 2012
- ↑ Press release on important personnel decisions. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 17, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Statement on the resignation of Jean Colombera.
- ↑ Wort.lu -Article "Exodus at the ADR continues!".
- ↑ RTL.lu article "Gibéryen: un zwëschemënschleche Relatioune failed".
- ↑ Tageblatt.lu: The last hour has struck ( Memento from January 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ List of members from the ADR National Board.
- ^ Luxembourg word: Congrès de l'ADR - Alex Penning, nouveau secrétaire général L'ADR , 22 March 2015
- ↑ a b Romain Hilgert: Last exit on the right ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ netz-gegen-nazis.de: Right-wing extremist election results of the 2009 European elections , June 8, 2009
- ↑ lessentiel.lu: Six students follow the demo call , December 19, 2011
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