Mindful Democrats

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mindful Democrats (short name: The Mindful) is a party that is active in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 , she appeared for the first time nationwide.

Emergence

The party was created in 2013 from the local chapter Hiddensee the CDU . A large part of the members resigned from the CDU after the mayor of Hiddense, Thomas Gens , at that time a direct candidate in the state constituency of Rügen I in the state elections in 2011 , was excluded from the CDU because he had concealed an earlier function in the right-wing extremist German People's Union for which he had worked as a functionary from 1998 to 2002.

The party initially called itself Mindful Democrats - The HIDDENSEE Party . In the 2014 local elections , the party received 63.2% of the vote and thus six of the ten seats in the Hiddensee municipal council.

State election 2016

For the state elections in 2016, several non-party mayors ran from the list of 15 candidates for the Mindful Democrats . The party's statutes explicitly allow non-party members to compete on the party's lists. The list included Britta Brusch-Gamm, Mayor of Crivitz , and André Bonitz, Mayor of Eixen . Gens was the top candidate.

In its election program for the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 , the party campaigned in particular for strengthening the municipalities, for saving in politics, free childcare, more staff in the judiciary and police and the further expansion of renewable energy in harmony with people and nature.

According to the preliminary official final result, the party achieved a share of 0.5 percent of the second vote, which corresponds to 3,738 absolute votes. In the first vote she received 1 percent nationwide and thus 7,889 votes. The Mindful Democrats in the constituency "Vorpommern-Rügen IV" had the best result in the second vote with 3.1%, which also included the island of Hiddensee.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Struggle for constituencies: Against giants .
  2. ^ Handbook of the German political parties (=  handbook ). 3rd, expanded and updated edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-17994-6 , pp. 152 ( dnb.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  3. ↑ KDO election presentation .
  4. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG: Stralsund / Grimmen / Bergen / Ribnitz-Damgarten - Mayors want to go to the Landtag - OZ - Ostsee-Zeitung .
  5. ^ Program for the state election 2016
  6. ↑ Election to the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2016, second votes , on the website of the state returning officer, September 4, 2016, accessed on September 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ Election to the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2016, state list (second votes in%) , on the website of the state returning officer, September 4, 2016, accessed on September 10, 2016.