CVP Canton of Solothurn
The Christian Democratic People's Party of the Canton of Solothurn (CVP Canton Solothurn) is a political party in the Canton of Solothurn . It is a cantonal party of the Christian Democratic People's Party in Switzerland .
history
Shortly after the Balsthaler Tag of 1830, a liberal popular uprising against aristocratic autocracy, which subsequently led to the canton’s first democratic constitution, a conservative opposition party was formed. They supported the new constitution, but, unlike the liberals, relied on traditional Roman Catholic values and represented less the urban bourgeoisie than a relatively large part of the rural and peasant population.
In 1836 the Solothurn Conservatives founded their first press, the “Schildwache am Jura”, which strongly represented the Catholic positions. And in 1840, the two conservative leaders Leonz Gugger and Theodor Scherer launched a petition calling for a people's veto against resolutions of the then, liberally dominated Solothurn cantonal parliament. The cantonal constitution was still purely representative at the time , there were no popular rights . The people's veto was then rejected in the constitutional vote that was due anyway. The Conservatives, however, always remained a direct democratic movement in order to represent the rural population. The people's rights finally prevailed in the course of the following decades, after the radical liberals, who were also directly democratically oriented, split off from the so-called old liberals.
The first conservative government councilor , Franz Josef Hänggi , owed his election in 1887 to the previous bank crash , which had cost the liberals much sympathy among the population.
From 1902 the Solothurn Conservatives called themselves the “Solothurn People's Party”, from 1972 like the Swiss parent party CVP. Here, as throughout Switzerland, the party opened up to the other denominations .
present
Since Franz Josef Hänggi, the CVP Solothurn has always occupied one or two of the five government council seats. The current mandate holders are Roland Fürst and Roland Heim . The cantonal parliament faction has evolved over the past decades as the other historically established parties FDP Canton Solothurn and SP with the emergence of new powers, especially the SVP , proportionately slightly reduced.
literature
- Eduard Tschachtli (Ed.): The Solothurn Parties at a Glance , Solothurn 1987, including the contribution by Walter Straumann
- Urs Dietschi : The people's veto in Switzerland. A contribution to the history of popular legislation , Dietschi Olten, 1926 (dissertation University of Bern, 1926)
- Markus Angst: The Solothurn bank crash and the constitutional revision of 1887. Walter-Verlag Olten, 1986 (dissertation University of Zurich, 1986).