Democratic Initiative Paderborn
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 2.2 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 14.6" E
The Democratic Initiative Paderborn (DIP) is a free voter community in Paderborn .
history
The DIP was founded out of annoyance about the agenda policy at the federal level and the perceived incrustation by the decade-old absolute majority of the CDU in the city in the run-up to the municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2004. A founding member was the emeritus sociologist Arno Klönne .
In 2004 the DIP reached the city council of Paderborn with 3.72% of the votes cast with two seats. Due to the change in the municipal code for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , it has had parliamentary group status since 2007 . In the local elections in 2009 she received 6.93% of the votes cast; Due to overhang mandates from the CDU, the DIP was represented with five mandates until 2014. In 2014 she received 4.61% and is represented with three mandates.
Content profile
Due to personal interdependencies, the political work of the DIP takes place in coordination with local citizens' initiatives. She campaigns against the garbage incineration plant planned in the Mönkeloh industrial area or the combat villages planned by the British stationing forces on the Senne military training area , the realization of which would seriously endanger the plans for a possible Senne National Park . Associated with the Paderborn Social Alliance , the DIP, together with the Paderborn Unemployment Center , the DGB and the Left Forum Paderborn, campaigns against “social assembly” due to the Hartz IV policy , whereby they promote “disrespectful treatment of job seekers” and increasing child poverty in Germany criticized. A longstanding demand made by this alliance to expand the previous family pass in Paderborn for other needy people was realized in 2009 with the creation of the “Paderborn Card”.
Chairman of the DIP is known as "Gaspreisrebellin" in the citizens' initiative gas prices-down-owl active high-school teacher Roswitha Köllner . Köllner and her parliamentary group colleague Reinhard Borgmeier advocate the remunicipalisation of the municipal utilities , as well as improving the hygienic conditions in schools and observing the parents' wishes when registering for secondary schools.
Local elections 2009
In the local elections , Roswitha Köllner ran as candidate for mayor. With 15 women on the 25 places on the reserve list, the DIP had the highest proportion of women of all parties and groups in the city. The DIP's top candidate was its parliamentary group leader in the city council, Reinhard Borgmeier. In the spring of 2009, DIP founding member Arno Klönne announced that a third of the DIP candidates running in the electoral districts were also running at the district level for the Left , which in turn did not run for the Paderborn City Council. This brought her on the part of Elmar Broks , CDU member in the European Parliament , the accusation of “bad citizen fraud” shortly before the elections, since the DIP was thus a “submarine” of the left.
Election results
| Paderborn City Council | ||
|---|---|---|
| year | % | Seats |
| 2004 | 3.72 | 2 |
| 2009 | 6.93 | 5 |
| 2014 | 4.61 | 3 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Paderborn - Council election 2004 - overall result ( Memento from February 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ City of Paderborn - Council election 2004 - distribution of seats ( Memento from February 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Infokom Gütersloh AöR: Paderborn - Council Election August 30, 2009 - Comprehensive income
- ↑ Infokom Gütersloh AöR: Paderborn - Council Election on Aug. 30, 2009 - allocation of seats
- ^ City of Paderborn : Paderborn map
- ↑ a b Annika Joeres : The rebel from Paderborn , in the Frankfurter Rundschau from October 15, 2008
- ↑ DIP reserve list
- ↑ Reiner Burger: U-boat alarm in Ostwestfalen-Lippe , in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 28, 2009 (accessed on August 31, 2009)