Christian Social Party (Switzerland)
| Christian Social Party (Switzerland) | |
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| Establishment date: | 1997 |
| Ideology: |
Christian left , Christian socialism , green politics , progressivism |
| Presidium: | Marius Achermann |
| Secretary General: | Marlies Schafer-Jungo |
| Members: | 1500 (as of 2011) |
| Share of voters: | 0.26% (as of: National Council election 2019 ) |
| National Council: | - |
| Council of States: | - |
| Cantonal parliaments: |
17/2609 (As of July 2020) |
| Cantonal Governments: |
1/154 (As of July 2020) |
| Party structure: | 5 cantonal parties |
| Website: | www.csp-pcs.ch |
The Christian Social Party (CSP) ( French Parti chrétien-social , Italian Partito Cristiano Sociale , Rhaeto-Romanic Partida cristiansociala ) is a Swiss party.
distribution
CSP sections exist in the cantons of Friborg , Jura , Lucerne (de facto inactive), Zug and Zurich as well as in the French-speaking part of Valais . The Friborg and Jura sections have a certain significance in cantonal politics. In the cantons of Zug and Zurich, the CSP normally appears on the lists of green alternatives or the greens in elections . In the Valais Grand Council elections, she last appeared on a joint list with the Social Democrats .
Representation in political institutions
In the canton parliaments of Friborg (4/110), Jura (8/60), Valais (4/130) and Zurich (1/160) the CSP is represented by a total of 17 members of parliament. The Freiburg CSP representative Hugo Fasel was a member of the National Council from 1991 to 2008. His successor, Marie-Thérèse Weber-Gobet , could not hold the seat in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 .
history
Within the Catholic Conservative Party (today the Christian Democratic People's Party ) there have been independent Christian-Social parties in several cantons since industrialization , which felt particularly committed to social issues. In the cantons of Friborg and Jura , Christian-social cantonal parties outside the CVP had existed since the second half of the 20th century. The Jurassic CSP, which was strongly committed to the cantonal grounds on the Jura question , was represented in the National Council from 1979 to 1983 by Gabriel Roy ; her Freiburg sister party from 1991 with Hugo Fasel.
In 1989 the CSP Graubünden left the CVP after internal quarrels and then appeared as an independent CSP. In 2000 it broke up. Something similar happened in 1993 in the city of Zurich , where, after the CVP did not port its former city council for re-election, the majority of the Christian Socials split off with the re-elected city councilor Willy Küng to form the “Free CSP” of the city of Zurich. After the merger to form CSP Switzerland (1997), the "Freie CSP Zurich" changed its name to "CSP Zurich" and has since been politicized under this name in the canton of Zurich.
As announced the year before, in 1997 the CSP cantonal parties of Friborg and Jura as well as the free CSP of the canton of Lucerne and the free CSP of the city of Zurich founded a Christian-Social Party in Switzerland (CSP - French Parti chrétien-social ), independent of the CVP . The most prominent members of the new party, which is led by a four-person committee, were the National Councilor Hugo Fasel (FR) and the then Zurich City Councilor Willy Küng. The CSP wants to work to the left of the CVP with a Christian background for socially and ecologically oriented political solutions. The guiding principle includes “solidarity in action with the socially and economically weaker and respect for the environment”. The CVP was angry about the name of the new party, as there was already a CSP within the CVP , which at that time included 14 cantonal groups (including a CSP Lucerne). She did not want to speak of a “spin-off” because these four parties had previously been outside the CVP.
The CSP Obwalden had 2005-2010 observer status at the CSP Switzerland. In 2010 she ended her collaboration with CSP Switzerland and has not had any organizational ties with any Swiss party since then. The CSP Obwalden is an important political force in the canton of Obwalden . It has been represented with one or two members in the government council since 1960 and with its own parliamentary group in the Obwalden cantonal council since 1982 , and from 2011 to 2019 also provided the only national councilor in Obwalden with Karl Vogler .
In 2006, CSP Unterwallis, founded in 1997, transferred from CVP to CSP Switzerland.
Web links
- Website of the Christian Social Party Switzerland
- Markus Rohner: Christian Social Movement. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Independent Christian Social Party (1988 to 2005). Yearbook of Swiss Politics (PDF file; 19 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The federal government briefly explained. ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Swiss Federal Chancellery, 2011, p. 21
- ^ Website of the CSP Zug
- ↑ a b National Council elections 2011: The change in the political landscape since 1971. ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2012 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. Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2011, p. 17, ISBN 978-3-303-17036-6
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2013 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.
- ↑ Norbert Zufferey: Vous avez dit PCS? - Presentation of the PCS in the Peuple Valaisan. ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CSP Unterwallis, 2005 (press release, French)
- ↑ Yearbook Swiss Politics 2005
