Citizens' alliance of free voters
The Citizens' Alliance of Free Voters e. V. is a free and party-independent voter community founded in 1993 in the state of Brandenburg. Since the local elections in 2008, it has been represented in the city council of the state capital Potsdam and with a representative in the district council of the Oberhavel district. The roots of the Citizens' Alliance lie in the opposition citizens' movement of the GDR, whereby the full name "Citizens' Alliance of Free Voters" deliberately builds a bridge into the tradition of free voter communities in the old federal states.
history
A part of the Brandenburg state association of the Bündnis 90 party pleaded against this in 1993 in the discussion about the intended nationwide merger with the Greens . Among them were Matthias Platzeck , who represented Bündnis 90 as environment minister in the state government, Günter Nooke , Peter Schüler , Manfred Kruczek and Gerd Gebhardt. However, these could not prevail and then founded - also in 1993 and in contrast to the merger - the Citizens' Alliance - with Günter Nooke, Matthias Platzeck and Wolfgang Pohl at the top. From then on, the Citizens' Alliance acted as an independent group in Brandenburg . After Nooke publicly questioned the credibility of statements made by Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe in the investigative committee on his earlier contacts with the Ministry of State Security in the spring of 1994 , the SPD terminated the coalition with the Citizens' Alliance. Environment Minister Platzeck resigned from the citizens' alliance.
In the state elections in 1994 , the citizens' alliance with the state parliament member Günter Nooke stood, but failed with 1.0% of the second vote because of the threshold clause . In the local elections in 1993, they entered numerous local parliaments , including in the independent city of Cottbus and the Spree-Neisse district . The most important subject matter was the rejection of a merger between the state of Brandenburg and Berlin .
After Matthias Platzeck left in 1994, the Citizens' Alliance lost its last most prominent leader in 1996 when Günter Nooke joined the CDU. In the 1999 state elections , the citizens' alliance only ran direct candidates, none of whom entered the state parliament. In the local elections in 2003, the citizens' alliance won a total of 11 mandates in the city council of Potsdam and the district councils of the Havelland, Oberhavel and Ostprignitz-Ruppin districts. In Cottbus, the civic alliance with Marcus Derling and in the Spree-Neisse district with Bernd Siegert (Mayor of Horno ) joined the CDU election list.
In a state members 'meeting on February 6, 2009, the Citizens' Alliance of Free Voters decided to change its name to the State Association of Free Voters Brandenburg . After a lawsuit by the Brandenburg Free Voters - excluded from the Federal Association of Free Voters - the association was legally prohibited from using this name. On February 11, 2009, the citizens' alliance applied for membership in the federal association. On May 19, 2011 in Potsdam, the Free Voters Association of Brandenburg was also founded as a state party of the Federal Association of Free Voters . Barbara Wolff was the founding chairman .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ pnn.de
- ↑ campaign hit countries marriage . Citizens' alliance wants to make politics "across the parties" . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 7, 1994
- ↑ http://www.eberswalder-buerger.de/resources/Landesverband+Freie+W$C3$A4hler+Brandenburg+240209.pdf ( Memento from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
- ↑ Press release FW Füssen ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. (PDF; 705 kB)
