Christian Social Party (CVP)
The Christian Social Party was a section of the CVP in Switzerland .
History of the Christian Socials
At the time the state was founded, party politics were strongly denominational. It was virtually impossible for a Catholic to join a socialist-secular organization. In contrast, the social reforms in the 19th century were strongly promoted by the Roman Catholic Church. From this emerged in rural cantons such as Friborg and Lucerne as a left-wing complement to the then Catholic-Conservative Party of Christian Social Parties.
Further Christian Social Parties emerged in the cities where the social need was greatest. So it is hardly surprising that a CSP section was founded among the immigrant Catholics in the Zwinglian city of Zurich. There was never a Catholic Conservative Party in that city. The increasing influence of the Christian Socials led to the fact that from 1957 the entire party was called the Conservative Christian Social Party .
The CVP has independent CSP sections in 14 cantons. In most cantons they run for elections within the party as a whole.
In 2018 it was renamed the Christian Social Association (CSV) .
particularities
In the canton of Valais , the conservative and the Christian social wing were strongly developed, which was related to the family policy in the individual villages. While in the French-speaking part of the canton there was initially no party of its own, the CSP Oberwallis split off from the CVP Oberwallis in 1949 , but has remained as an independent cantonal party within the CVP Switzerland to this day . It was not until 1997 that the CSP Unterwallis was founded, which was also an independent cantonal party of the CVP until 2005 (similar to the Oberwalliser CVP), and has been independent since then.
The CSP from the cantons of Friborg and Jura never joined the CVP. In 1997 they merged with small parties from Lucerne , Graubünden and the city of Zurich that had split off from the CVP to form the independent Christian-Social Party of Switzerland . The independent CSP Switzerland was represented in the National Council between 1991 and 2011 (first with Hugo Fasel , then with Marie-Thérèse Weber-Gobet ).
The CSP Obwalden resigned from the CVP in 2002 because within the canton it was often in opposition to the CVP, which was quite conservative in Obwalden. From 2005 to 2010 it had observer status at the independent CSP Switzerland, and since 2010 it has not been organizationally linked to any Swiss party. From 2011 to 2019, together with Karl Vogler , she provided the Obwalden National Council, which joined the CVP parliamentary group for its work as a federal parliamentarian .
Web links
- Website of the CSV as an association within the CVP
- Markus Rohner: Christian Social Movement. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yearbook Swiss Politics 2005
- ↑ Monika Rüegger steps into the new office dancing , Luzerner Zeitung online.