Basic Income Alliance

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Basic Income Alliance
Logo of the BGE
Party leader Carl-Richard Klütsch
vice-chairman Claudia Röse
Federal Treasurer Thomas Rehmet
founding September 25, 2016
Place of foundation Munich
Headquarters Driesener Strasse 10
10439 Berlin
Alignment Unconditional basic income
Number of members approx. 300 [as of May 11, 2020]
Website buendnis-grundeinkommen.de

The Basic Income Alliance , abbreviated to BGE (full name: Basic Income Alliance (BGE) - The Basic Income Party ), is a monothematic small German party that advocates the introduction of an unconditional basic income in Germany in its program and its statutes . The Basic Income Alliance was founded on September 25, 2016 as a federal party in Munich and has a regional association in all 16 federal states .

Self-image and goals

The Basic Income Alliance sees an unconditional basic income as a key way of counteracting what it sees as the widening income gap . The technological progress , the automation of production processes, the resulting unemployment and low-paid employment ( working poor ) led to the split in the society that must be overcome in order to maintain social peace. Even today, traditional paid work and conventional social benefits are no longer sufficient to maintain security of supply in Germany and to make it sustainable.

Since no party represented in the Bundestag advocates the introduction of the unconditional basic income, which, according to the BGE, the “majority of Germans ... consider a good idea”, and there are no nationwide referendums in Germany, the BGE as a party wants Carrying "years of work of the initiatives and networks in 2017 in the parliaments". According to the party statutes , the party should dissolve when an unconditional basic income is introduced in Germany and transform itself into a charitable foundation under public law to protect it. The party allows double membership, which means that members of other parties can also join. The Basic Income Alliance does not favor any specific implementation model for the Basic Income. The party takes over the definition of the network basic income , the German partner of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) , for the unconditional basic income by the four criteria:

organization

The federal board of the Basic Income Alliance consists of the chairman, deputy chairman, treasurer and deputy as well as an assessor from each of the federal states as a link between the federal association and state associations as well as state initiatives on the BGE.

The BGE has regional associations in all 16 federal states, with Rhineland-Palatinate the last state association was added on April 23, 2017.

Electoral participation

The party took part in elections for the first time in the state elections in Saarland on March 26, 2017 in the Saarbrücken constituency, one of the three constituencies in Saarland, and achieved 286 votes (0.2% in the Saarbrücken constituency, 0.1% nationwide). In April 2017 she was admitted with a state list to participate in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 14, 2017. The party received 5,260 votes (0.1%).

On July 7, 2017, the alliance was approved by the Federal Election Committee for the 2017 federal election , in which the party ran in all 16 federal states and achieved 97,386 votes (0.2%). The party achieved the highest results with 0.5% each in the federal states of Bremen and Hamburg.

The party also ran for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2017 and received 5,144 votes, or 0.1%. In the state elections in Hesse in 2018 , the party received 3,017 votes, again 0.1%. In the 2019 European elections in Germany , the party received 40,834 (0.1%) of the vote.

history

Former logo of the Basic Income Alliance

In the spring of 2016, planning began to found a one-topic party for an unconditional basic income. The party was founded by 32 people during the week of basic income on September 25, 2016 in the One World House in Munich. In March 2017 the party had 200 members. One of the reasons for the founding of the party in 2015 was the failure to introduce a study commission of the Greens and the left for an unconditional basic income. The first party chairman was Ronald Trzoska, the first deputy chairman was Arnold Schiller. On March 26, 2017, Susanne Wiest was elected as Chairwoman and Cosima Kern as Deputy Chairwoman, who resigned from their offices on December 6th, 2017. On January 27, 2018, the chairman Carl-Richard Klütsch, his deputy Iris A. Hollweg and the treasurer Meinolf Heufken-Jaekel in conjunction with his deputy Gerhard Wagner were elected at an extraordinary general meeting (party convention). At the following ordinary party congress on 26./27. May 2018 in Kassel then Alina Komar as chairman, Moritz Meisel as deputy chairman and Ronald Heinrich and Dirk Schmelz as federal treasurer and his deputy replaced the previous presidium.

Web links

Commons : Alliance for Basic Income  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint - Basic Income Alliance. Retrieved on May 11, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Peter Bierl: Let's talk about an unconditional basic income. Interview. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 26, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ Last regional association founded. Basic Income Alliance, accessed April 24, 2017 .
  4. ^ WDR 5: Curiosity is enough - Basic Income Alliance
  5. ↑ u. a. Daliaresearch: 31% of Europeans want basic income as soon as possible “Dalia's most recent survey, completed in March 2017, shows that the number of Europeans supporting basic income increased from 64% in March 2016 to 68% in March 2017.”. In: daliaresearch.com , accessed Oct. 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Who we are , information from the BGE, requested on October 20, 2017.
  7. ^ Statutes of the Basic Income Alliance - § 16 Dissolution
  8. ↑ a b Alliance Basic Income: Party statutes . Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ welt.de - New Party for Basic Income (September 19, 2016)
  10. ^ Basic income network: Basic income - the idea In: grundeinkommen.de , accessed on October 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ Bündnis Grundeinkommen: Executive Board In: www.buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , accessed on April 5, 2017.
  12. ↑ Alliance Basic Income: Supporters' signatures In: rp.buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , accessed on May 8, 2017.
  13. ^ Saarländischer Rundfunk: 14 parties in the state election. ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: SR.de , February 2, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sr.de
  14. ↑ Alliance Basic Income Saarland: BGE is eligible in Saarland! In: sl.buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , January 27, 2017. Accessed on February 13, 2017.
  15. ↑ State Returning Officer Saarland: Final official final result of the state elections 2017 in the constituency of Saarbrücken ( Memento from July 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ State Returning Officer North Rhine-Westphalia: State Electoral Committee allows 31 parties to participate in the state elections ( memento of the original from April 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of April 4, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  17. ↑ The regional returning officer informs: Final result for North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  18. ↑ transcript of the public meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee on 7 July 2017 , p 47 (PDF, 544.18 KB) on bundeswahlleiter.de
  19. ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Preliminary results of the 2017 Bundestag election ( Memento from September 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  20. ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Preliminary results of the 2017 Bundestag election in the Bremen constituency , accessed on September 26, 2017.
  21. ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Preliminary results of the 2017 Bundestag election in the Hamburg constituency , accessed on September 26, 2017.
  22. ↑ State Returning Officer Lower Saxony: Preliminary results and comparative figures ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved October 18, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aktuelle-wahlen-niedersachsen.de
  23. ↑ Result of the European elections on the website of the Federal Returning Officer, accessed on June 5, 2019
  24. ^ Arnold Schiller: Bündnis Grundeinkommen founded In: arnold-schiller.de , accessed on May 8, 2017.
  25. ↑ Bündnis Grundeinkommen: Timetable In: buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , accessed on May 8, 2017.
  26. ^ Moritz Meisel: The basic income alliance has been successfully founded. In: buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , October 6, 2016. Accessed on May 8, 2017.
  27. ^ Basic Income Alliance: "Originally, the Basic Income Alliance was founded by 32 founding members in September 2016 - now the alliance has over 200 members." In: buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , accessed on May 8, 2017.
  28. ↑ WDR 5: Curiosity is enough - Basic Income Alliance In: youtube.com , October 2, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
  29. ^ Basic Income Alliance: New Board of Directors . From: buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , accessed on June 8, 2018.