BDP Graubünden
| BDP Graubünden | |
|---|---|
| Establishment date: | September 14, 1919 as the Democratic Party September 22, 1971 as SVP section |
| Presidium: | Beno Niggli |
| Vice Presidium: |
Aita Zanetti , Christian De Tann |
| Members of the Federal Council: | Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (2008-15) |
| Members: | approx. 3500 (as of 2008) |
| National Council: | 2 seats |
| Cantonal parliaments: | 23 seats (as of July 2020) |
| Cantonal Governments: | 1 seat (as of July 2020) |
| Website: | www.bdp-gr.info |
The Bourgeois Democratic Party (BDP) Graubünden ( Italian Partito borghese democratico dei Grigioni (PBD) , Romansh Partida burgais democratica dal Grischun (PBD) ) is a political party in the Swiss canton of Graubünden .
From 1971 to June 2008 it formed a section of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) under the name of the Swiss People's Party of Graubünden . On June 16, 2008, their delegates decided to rename the party to BPS Graubünden . Since the beginning of July 2008 the party has been using the name BDP Graubünden. It has been one of the sections of the Swiss Civil Democratic Party since it was founded.
history
1919–1971: Democratic Party
After the Democrats had founded in the 1860s in eastern Switzerland, various cantonal parties, emerged in Grisons a similar grouping in the context of the first in the proportional voting method conducted national elections of 1919. A group of "young free-witted", d. H. Reform-oriented members of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) entered this election with their own list. As a result, the young liberals split off and founded the Democratic Party of Bündens . The "Neue Bündner Zeitung" became the press organ . In 1920 Christian Michel was the first democrat to be elected to the Graubünden government council, and in 1925 Andreas Gadient won his first seat in the national council.
In the 1930s and 40s, the democrats played an important role in Graubünden politics. In 1935, Albert Lardelli was the first to elect a Graubünden democrat to the Council of States . In 1937 the Democrats became the strongest party in the Grand Council with 34 representatives . Attempts in the 1930s to unite the Democratic Party with the Liberals into an "Evangelical Party" failed.
In 1971, the Graubünden Democrats joined with the Glarus Democrats and the Farmers, Trade and Citizens' Party (BGB), which is present in the cantons of Aargau, Basel-Land, Bern, Freiburg, Schaffhausen, Ticino, Thurgau, Vaud and Zurich , to form the Swiss People's Party (SVP ) together.
National Councilors of the Democratic Party of Graubünden
| From ... to | number | Representative |
|---|---|---|
| 1925-1935 | 1 | Andreas Gadient |
| 1935-1939 | 2 |
Andreas Gadient Ruben Lanicca |
| 1939-1947 | 3 |
Andreas Gadient Ruben Lanicca Rudolf Planta (*) |
| 1947-1959 | 2 |
Andreas Gadient Georg speaker |
| 1959-1966 | 2 |
Georg Brosi Christian Bühler |
| 1966-1971 | 2 |
Georg Brosi Leon Schlumpf |
(*) Resigned March 1942, replaced by Georg Sprecher
Council of States of the Democratic Party of Graubünden
| From ... to | number | Representative |
|---|---|---|
| 1935-1956 | 1 | Albert Lardelli |
| 1956-1971 | 1 | Arno Theus (*) |
(*) President of the Council 1970/71
1971–2008: Section of SVP Switzerland
From 1971 to 2008 the party formed a cantonal section of SVP Switzerland. During this time, a member of the SVP Graubünden was elected to the Federal Council twice :
- Leon Schlumpf , Federal Council 1980–1987, and
- Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf , the daughter of Leon Schlumpf, Federal Councilor from 2008 to 2015
2008: Exclusion from SVP Switzerland
In the general election of the Swiss state government on December 12, 2007 , the previous SVP Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher was not confirmed and replaced by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (SVP / GR; today BDP). The possibility of Blocher not being re-elected had already been discussed in detail during the election campaign. The SVP accused the center and left parties of a secret plot to achieve this goal and announced that it would join the “opposition” in the event of such an election result; if a non-nominated party member accepts an election, it will not be a member of the SVP parliamentary group. As a result, Widmer-Schlumpf was expelled from the meetings of the SVP parliamentary group, and a quarter of a year later a decision was made to expel it entirely. Since an individual, according to the statutes, can only be excluded by the cantonal section, the central board of SVP Switzerland requested the Graubünden woman to resign from the Federal Council and the party immediately on April 4, 2008. Should she refuse, the cantonal party SVP Graubünden would have to expel her from its ranks. In the event that this should also oppose the instructions from Bern, she (i.e. the entire SVP Graubünden) was threatened with expulsion from the national parent party. Since none of these requirements were met, the central board initiated an expulsion procedure against SVP Graubünden on May 17th and made the formal expulsion resolution on June 1st, 2008, which started a 30-day appeal period according to the party statutes.
BDP Graubünden
Behind the scenes, the people of Graubünden explored the possibility of a joint approach with dissidents from other cantons, whereby the idea of a new nationwide, moderately conservative bourgeois party took shape. On June 16, 2008, an assembly of delegates of the SVP Graubünden in Landquart decided to delete membership of SVP Switzerland from the party statutes, change the party name to the Swiss Civil Party (BPS) Graubünden and to forego an appeal against the exclusion decision. Councilor of States Christoffel Brändli criticized the team around interim president Bleiker had unilaterally geared its efforts to founding a new party and did not try to prevent the exclusion from SVP Switzerland consistently. Brändli initially announced that he would in future be politicized as a non-party . At the beginning of August 2008 he decided to join the re-established SVP Graubünden.
On June 19, 2008, a new party with the name of SVP Graubünden was founded in St. Moritz and was committed to the line of the national SVP . Some local and district parties of the BDP (the "old" SVP) are considering or have already decided to convert to this group.
At the beginning of July 2008 the party changed its name from BPS to BDP, analogous to BDP Bern and to avoid possible legal disputes with the small grouping of the Swiss Citizens' Party.
Current program
At the delegates' meeting on June 16, 2008, the designated party president, Marcus Hasler, named the most important program priorities:
- Securing livelihoods in the peripheral regions
- largely independent energy supply
- public safety
- sustainable financial policy
- sustainable environmental policy
Current elected officials (as of 2018)
National Council:
Government Council of the Canton of Graubünden:
Grand Council of the Canton of Graubünden:
- 23 MPs (out of 120)
literature
Graubünden Democrats:
- Rolf Seiler: "The Founding of the Democratic Party" (article)
- Werner Backes (ed.): The history of the liberal Democratic Party Grisons - Series of ff FDP Graubunden, Book IV, p. 7 - (PDF)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bündner SVP spin-off takes over the name of the Bernese , NZZ, July 2, 2008
- ^ Markus Bürgi: Democratic Party. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Seiler (see literature)
- ↑ a b Database of the Swiss Parliament
- ↑ The SVP threatens the opposition again , NZZ, August 27, 2007
- ↑ SVP wants clear conditions in the Federal Council election ( memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 December 4, 2007
- ↑ svp.ch: Central Board confirms exclusion request ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. , SVP press release, accessed April 5, 2008
- ↑ SVP is serious about kicking the Bündner , NZZ-Online, May 18, 2008
- ↑ a b The Swiss Civil Party (BPS) is created , NZZ Online, June 17, 2008
- ^ District parties Davos and Maienfeld and local party St. Moritz
- ^ District party Rhäzüns and local party Domat / Ems
- ^ New Bündner SVP is founded ( Memento from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Tages-Anzeiger, June 19, 2008
- ↑ Eilgründung: Civic Party Switzerland, an offshoot of the SVP , the press 17 June 2008
- ↑ Results of the NR elections 2015. Accessed October 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Grand Council elections 2018. Accessed October 1, 2018 .
