The other party
The other party (DaP) was a political party in Winterthur .
history
After the majority merger of the Democratic Party (DP) with the FDP in 1971, not all of the democrats strongly anchored in Winterthur joined the liberal party. Some party members under the presidium of the Winterthur lawyer Walter Huber-Ravazzi continued to form an independent group in Winterthur under the name New Democratic Party (NDP), which a little later renamed themselves again in their old name Democratic Party . In 1974 the group won one seat in the elections to the Winterthur municipal council , and four years later they won a second seat.
Due to a clearly more socially liberal and also greener course in comparison to the other three sections, the Winterthur section split off from its cantonal party in 1984 and was henceforth independent. In the early 1990s, the group was renamed The Other Party (DaP).
Due to a steady decline in voters over the years, the DaP lost one of its seats in 1994. In the cantonal elections in 1995, the DaP was able to win a mandate together with the LdU with Esther Zumbrunn, but lost it again in 1999. Most recently, the party took part in the municipal council elections in 1998 and was able to book a share of 2.2% of the vote and one seat for itself. The group, which last had 30 members, was dissolved at the beginning of 2000, the remaining councilor Silv O'Brien joined the Greens .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Winterthur town history . Volume 2: From 1850 to the present. Between steam and bytes - technology, culture, innovation. tape 2 . Chronos Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1212-6 , pp. 128-129 .
- ↑ Article “Eine Kleinstpartei im Krebsgang” by Thomas Schraner, Der Landbote from August 15, 2000