Christian Party of Austria

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Christian Party of Austria
Logo of the Christian Party of Austria
Party leader Alfred Kuchar
Secretary General Rudolf Gehring
founding October 15, 2005
Headquarters Vienna
Alignment Christian fundamentalism ,
conservatism ,
EU skepticism
Website christlicheparteioesterreichs.at

The Christian Party of Austria (CPÖ) is a small Austrian party that invokes Christian values.

history

On October 15, 2005, Alfons Adam founded the party “The Christians”. On November 29, 2008, Rudolf Gehring was elected federal chairman, whereupon a group around Alfons Adam left the party and on January 13, 2010 founded a new party called the "Christian Alliance". In the party "The Christians" followed a fundamental debate about the party name. With the argument that “the Christians” was a name for a religion and not for a political party, a majority voted for the renaming to “Christian Party of Austria”. The federal party conference on November 12, 2011 confirmed Rudolf Gehring as chairman.

program

The CPÖ advocates a reorganization of society and a Christian Austria. She wants a "return of religious values ​​into the political arena, but not a state church". It defines three main themes: marriage and family, upbringing and education, protection of life and culture.

Many members and candidates have long been active against abortion . The head of Human Life International Austria , Dietmar Fischer, was the party's candidate.

marriage and family

The party defines marriage as a lifelong, heterosexual relationship. The entire tax, social and labor law should be aligned with your family model; what they consider to be the “ natural and godly distribution of roles between men and women ” should be protected. They take a massive stand against gender mainstreaming because it denies the natural gender identities with the aim of giving sexual arbitrariness a pseudo-scientific basis. In her opinion, intact families can only exist if daily life is not determined by fornication and sexual debauchery. You are of the opinion that gender mainstreaming seeks to "abolish men and women as biological sex". As part of gender mainstreaming, which they call the " state religion ", they also see the Ministry of Women in its current form and would therefore abolish it. As an alternative, Adam called for a "real family ministry" in 2008.

Adam polemicized that he gave the Muslims high credit "for not wanting to integrate into our dirty society." If Christianity were more cohesive and also fathered more children , strangers would also be "no problem".

Homosexuality is viewed as a curable sexual neurosis . It is criticized that this is a taboo subject which should not be discussed. The homolobby carried out "rock- hard terror" by protests against a congress in Graz, which meant that a planned address by doctors and psychologists who would work on the healing of homosexuals could not take place. According to the organizer, however, he would never have allowed a seminar on the healing of homosexuality, and the workshop did not refer to homosexuality, but to an ego-dystonic sexual orientation . Because of the opposition to gender mainstreaming mentioned above, they are opposed to state promoting homosexuality, for example through registered partnerships. The latter also contribute nothing to the common good of the community, this is done solely through the procreation of children. Same-sex partnerships are a contribution to the destruction of the family and are therefore the greatest danger that threatens the country. According to his own statements, top candidate Adam has no problem expressing such views publicly despite criticism, because "if you want to forbid us Catholics or Christians from expressing our point of view, then it is like persecution of Christians."

It is argued in the party magazine that homosexual partnerships are characterized by higher divorce rates, low loyalty and frequent partner changes. For the latter point, the statements of an HIV prevention study by Maria Xiridou et al. referred; However, due to the explicit exclusion of monogamous subjects, this is unsuitable for assessing homosexual relationships in general.

Education

As stipulated in Article 2 of the First Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights of March 20, 1952, the state should ensure that the upbringing and instruction of children takes place in accordance with the religion and belief of their parents. The aim should be "the values ​​of the true, the good and the beautiful"; Premature or non- judgmental sex education classes are rejected as undermining the authority of parents and promoting aggression. According to Adam, it was completely wrong at school and was a “guide to fornication and sexual debauchery”, which resulted in incapacity to bond, drug addiction and excessive crime. Models of same-sex partnerships in schools should also not be allowed to be presented as normal.

Life protection

The protection of life from conception to natural death should be absolute and take precedence over all other legal interests. Abortions in particular should be prohibited, artificial insemination is rejected.

Cultural and European policy

Rudolf Gehring (r.) With Hannelore Schuster and Heinz-Christian Strache ( FPÖ ) during a demonstration against the expansion of an Islamic cultural center in Vienna (2009)

The party defines European culture as a Christian one that needs to be preserved. Comprehensive legal protection is to be introduced against the degradation of Christian beliefs and organizations. Culture should lead to the appreciation of a morally high standard of living; Public funds should not be used for events that propagate an indecent lifestyle or for blasphemous art.

The European Union rejects it in its current form, as does the Lisbon Treaty . If the EU were to develop into a federal state, it would be a " totalitarian state". The party wants a Christian Europe of the fatherlands.

In economic policy, the party advocates a social market economy in which the means of production are privately owned, the state intervenes as little as possible, the tax burden and public debt are reduced, and jobs have priority over profit maximization.

The CPÖ advocates a neutral Austria with a strong armed forces serving exclusively for national defense.

criticism

The CPÖ is criticized by homosexual associations for its negative attitude towards equality for homosexuals in matters of daily life (e.g. registered partnerships) as agitation .

The party also received criticism from the Christian side. In terms of content, for example, the Catholic women's movement or the Diocese of Feldkirch distance themselves - nobody in politics has a monopoly on Christian values, according to the pastoral director of the diocese.

elections

The first election the party ran for was the state elections in Lower Austria in 2008 . The main focus of the election campaign was the rejection of abortions. Next Christians party advocated a so-called mothers salary, family-oriented housing subsidies and a family option one. They received 0.8% of the vote and therefore no mandate , but were ahead of the parliamentary party BZÖ . The party also competed nationwide in the state elections in Tyrol in 2008 , with 1.4% of the vote it missed a mandate. In the National Council election on September 28, 2008 , the party ran nationwide and achieved 0.63%. For the regional elections in Carinthia and Salzburg in March 2009, Die Christen could not raise the required number of declarations of support.

On September 27, 2009, the party headed the state election in Upper Austria with regional chairwoman Martha Zethofer . It received 0.43% of the vote. Daniel Dragomir ran for the municipal council election in Atzbach on the same day and achieved 2.16%. In response to the political course of the ÖVP , Dragomir focused on two main issues. On the one hand, he wanted to particularly stand up against an alleged outpouring of Muslims, since the “Islamic system” is associated with dictatorship and poverty. And "there must be no gays in the community, I will fight that with all my might."

The current chairman, Rudolf Gehring, was one of three candidates for the Austrian federal presidential election on April 25, 2010. He received 5.4% of the vote.

In the state elections in Lower Austria in 2013 , the CPÖ ran again, but lost over 90% of its votes and only achieved 0.09%.

In the 2013 National Council elections , the CPÖ was able to run in the federal states of Burgenland, Upper Austria, Styria and Vorarlberg and thus achieve 6,647 votes or 0.14 percent nationwide. In the federal states of Salzburg and Lower Austria, not all declarations of support were recognized by the state election authorities, as some were only submitted as copies. For Gehring this is a "flimsy reason" because it is not in the law that only originals apply. As a result, the party was unable to run in these federal states, which made it feel “very disadvantaged”. Therefore, the election was challenged at the Constitutional Court in order to have it repeated. The VfGH rejected the election challenge for formal reasons.

In the 2014 EU election , the CPÖ supported the reform conservatives politically and financially. However, these failed to make it into the European Parliament.

In the state elections in Upper Austria in 2015 , the CPÖ ran with Dragomir as the top candidate and achieved 0.36% (−0.07).

In the 2017 National Council election , the CPÖ only ran in Vorarlberg . It received 425 votes (0.008%).

The CPÖ originally wanted to run in the 2019 European elections in Austria . For this, 2,600 declarations of support had to be collected, the CPÖ did not reach the necessary number of declarations of support.

In the 2019 National Council election , the CPÖ was only able to obtain the necessary declarations of support in Burgenland and gained 260 votes. For the state elections in Vorarlberg that took place in October , the CPÖ submitted nominations in three of Vorarlberg's four electoral districts . The party received 426 or 0.26% of the vote.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria election: The Christian Party . ( Memento of April 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) HLI Austria website, accessed on April 17, 2008.
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  3. ↑ Jürgen Hirschmann, Sandra Maier: Fm5 interview with party chairman Alfons Adam  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) , fm5.at, November 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fm5.at
  4. ↑ Raphael M. Bonelli, Walter Pieringer, Hans-Peter Kapfhammer: RPP 2007 Statement on Workshop 4.6 with the title “Therapeutic Working with Ichdystonic Sexual Orientation” (PDF; 30 kB) , rpp2007.org, August 21, 2007
  5. ↑ Organizer: Statement on the criticism of the contribution structure of the RPP 2007 (PDF; 23 kB), rpp2007.org, September 10, 2007
  6. ↑ Gay marriage in practice . In: The Christians - information magazine about the Christians . Edition 6, 02/2008 (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), p. 6., PDF-S. 4th@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.diechristen.at
  7. ↑ Maria Xiridou, Ronalda Geskus, Johna de Wit, Roela Coutinho, Mirjam Kretzschmar: The contribution of steady and casual partnerships to the incidence of HIV infection among homosexual men in Amsterdam. In: AIDS , Volume 17 (7), May 2, 2003
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  23. ^ Decision WI5 / 2013. In: RIS . Constitutional Court, February 27, 2014, accessed August 20, 2014 .
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