Christian voter community
The Christian Voting Community (CWG) is a right-wing party from Austria , which was founded on December 8, 1989 in Mariazell and sees itself as the "umbrella organization of all Christian groups with political interests". At the regional level, the CWG competes in national elections . The current party chairman is Karl Angerer.
Various groups of voters in Bavaria (e.g. in the district of Cham or in the district of Roth ) also bear the name Christian voter community. A group of voters in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Viersen also had this name after it was previously called the Christian Communal Voting Association .
Positions
The CWG is for a ban on pornography and against "intellectual and moral pollution". Therefore she calls for the “protection of our youth from drugs , pornography, sects , depictions of violence in the media and other destructive influences” and warns against a “ multicultural society ” which she sees as a threat.
As part of the so-called right to life movement , they also reject abortion . At the beginning of 1999 the CWG collected signatures against the introduction of the abortion pill Mifegyne , which it submitted on February 11, 1999 together with a written petition in parliament.
Another topic of the CWG is the freedom of art , which in their eyes goes too far . For years, the CWG has been fighting for a curtailment of artistic freedom and is calling for a corresponding amendment to the relevant constitutional law. This is intended to forbid "mockery of religion, blasphemy, human degradation and defamation, pornography, glorification of brutal violence and cruelty to animals". With this legislative proposal, the CWG is targeting, on the one hand, Viennese actionists such as Hermann Nitsch , Günter Brus and Otto Muehl , and, on the other hand, caricaturists who are critical of the church such as Gerhard Haderer .
The CWG accuses the European Union of corruption and abuse of power and is committed to maintaining Austrian neutrality. In the medium term, one is in favor of a “substantial loosening of the relationship with the EU”; Austria's exit from the EU is seen as a long-term goal.
Significance in Austria and election results
The importance and political influence of the Christian voter community is low. It is not represented in the National Council, in one of the nine regional parliaments or in a municipal council.
For the first time, the Christian voter community stood in the National Council election in 1990 . It also achieved its best result to date with 9,263 votes, which corresponds to 0.2 percent of the vote at the federal level. The four percent hurdle was missed by a long way. The result was similar in the 1994 National Council election , where the CWG received 9,051 votes (0.1 percent). In the National Council election in Austria in 1999 there were 3,030 (0.07 percent) and in the 2002 National Council election 2,009 votes (0.04 percent).
In the 2013 National Council election , the CWG did not submit a candidacy and instead called for people to vote for the FPÖ . This is the party "largely in accordance with its principles and program [the CWG]".
Web links
- Website of the Christian Voting Community ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ CWG Furth in the forest. cwg-furth.de, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018 .
- ↑ CWG Heideck. www.cwg-heideck.de, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Call for elections on the homepage of the CWG ( Memento of September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)