The blue party

This article covers The Blue Party, which was founded in 2017. For the fictional party of the Bütten speaker Toni Geller see there.

The blue party
Party leader	Frauke Petry
vice-chairman	Michael Muster , Hubertus von Below , Alexander Langguth
founding	17th September 2017
Place of foundation	Grimma
resolution	December 31, 2019
Headquarters	Leipzig
newspaper	blauewende.de/buergerzeitung
Alignment	Conservatism , national conservatism , National Liberalism , euroscepticism , economic liberalism
Colours)	blue , white
Minimum age	16 years
Website	dieblauepartei.de

The blue party ( abbreviation: Blaue #TeamPetry ) was a small German party and was initiated in 2017 by the AfD spokeswoman Frauke Petry . It was represented by party representatives in the German Bundestag , in several state parliaments and in the European Parliament .

The Blue Party was only conceived as a necessary legal entity of the Bürgerforum Blaue Wende in order to be able to run for elections at all in accordance with the German party law with party status. The aim of the Blue Turnaround project was to allow more people in Germany to participate in the political will-making and decision-making process ( participation ) who did not feel sufficiently addressed by the existing party structures and offers. The aim of the project “Blue Wende / Blue Party” was therefore to activate citizens for the democratic processes in Germany and to enable more direct access to knowledge and expertise from society and science in parliamentary work.

At the beginning of November 2019, the party congress decided to dissolve the party at the end of the year.

history

founding

Formally, the party was a week before the federal election in 2017 by Michael pattern , established, a lawyer and longtime confidant Petrys and on 26 September 2017 at the Federal Election logged. Muster is the husband of the former Saxon member of the state parliament, Kirsten Muster , who, like Petry, has left the Saxon AfD parliamentary group .

In November 2017, a citizens' forum called the Blaue Wende was founded. There there is the possibility of getting involved regardless of party affiliation, whereby the party primarily serves the purpose of being allowed to run in elections. The form in which the open citizens' forums and the formally organized party should be linked remained open. On October 14, 2017, Petry confirmed that she would join the party “soon”.

Petry had already registered an Internet address "dieblauen.de" in July 2017 , but stated on request that it was only an "idea". She later said the new party would not have such a name.

National elections

The blues did not run for the 2019 European elections . In this regard, it has been speculated that the party was unable to collect the 4,000 supporter signatures required for a candidacy.

The party first appeared in the state elections in Saxony in 2019 . The top candidate was Frauke Petry. The party received 7,786 votes, which corresponds to 0.4% of the valid votes.

In the state elections in Thuringia in 2019 , the party received 857 of the state votes, which corresponds to 0.1% of the valid votes.

resolution

Party leader Petry said on November 5, 2019 that the party would dissolve by the end of the year. This decision was justified with the poor results in the state elections in the same year: Neither in Saxony nor in Thuringia , the party made it into the parliaments. The resolution to dissolve was made at the member party conference in Döben , a district of Grimma .

Surname

The color blue was referring loud Petry for one of the Bavarian CSU , wants to build on the policy, the blue party nationwide, on the other hand the color stand generally in Europe for "conservative and liberal politics." It is also the color of the Finnish Blue Future , which has split off from it because of a "right shift" by the Basic Finns party . On the other hand, blue is also used by the AfD and the Austrian FPÖ .

Shortly after the 2017 federal election, the AfD registered the brands “Blue Party”, “Blue Wende”, “Blue Group”, “The Blue”, “Blue Fraction” and “Blue Forum” and then had Petry warned. The Cologne District Court ruled in January 2019 that the blue party could continue to appear under this name. A short time later, the District Court of Munich I ruled that the party was not allowed to use the name as a trademark, e.g. B. when selling devotional objects . Petry appealed this decision, which was dismissed by the Munich Higher Regional Court in September 2019.

The present-day small party is not connected to the fictional Blue Party, which Toni Geller satirically portrayed on hand-made speeches during the Cologne Carnival ; Geller also died in 2012.

Mandates and parliamentary presence

Several party members served as members of parliament at various political levels . By 2019 had Frauke Petry and her husband Marcus Pretzell this dual mandates .

European level

Marcus Pretzell was a member of the European Parliament until 2019, where he was a member of the right-wing populist ENF parliamentary group after he had been expelled from the EKR parliamentary group (still as an AfD member) . In the 2019 elections to the European Parliament , the party did not run because it did not get the 4,000 supporting signatures required for it and subsequently resigned from parliament when it was constituted on July 2, 2019.

Federal level

In addition to Frauke Petry, Mario Mieruch , who was also elected via the AfD, was a non-attached member of the German Bundestag for the blue party .

State level

Countries in which the blue party was represented in the state parliament as an opposition party until October 1, 2019

In the Saxon state parliament , five former AfD members around Petry appeared unofficially as a blue group until 2019 .

Marcus Pretzell is represented in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and sits there as a non-attached MP. Alexander Langguth , who has also left the AfD parliamentary group, has announced that he will join the Blue Party. The third non-attached party, Frank Neppe , is like Langguth a member of the Blue Group in Iserlohn City Council.

In January 2018, Gottfried Backhaus , who was elected for the AfD in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , joined the blue party.

In the state elections in Saxony in 2019 , Blaue #Team Petry received 7,786 votes, which corresponds to 0.36%. As a direct candidate, the party chairwoman Frauke Petry achieved 805 votes or 2% of the first votes in her constituency Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge 3 and thus over half of all first votes in her party (1507 or 0.07% nationwide) and a little more than twice as many their party in second votes in this constituency (384 or 1%).

Klaus Rietschel , non-attached member of the Thuringian state parliament , ran for the blue in the state elections in Thuringia 2019 . The party received 0.1% of the second vote.

Local level

In October 2017, almost the entire AfD parliamentary group in Iserlohn's city ​​council , which Langguth and Neppe also belonged to, joined the blue party. Frank Neppe did not join the party, only the parliamentary group. It was the first establishment of a blue parliamentary group nationwide. Another parliamentary group has been in the Nettetal city ​​council since the beginning of 2018 . In Pirna there was a parliamentary group from September 2018 Pirna can do more - The blue turning point in cooperation with the voter initiative Pirna can do more . In addition, other municipal elected officials in Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia have joined the Blue. In the 2019 municipal elections in Saxony, the blue party ran in Zwickau and with only 0.78 percent of the vote did not get a seat on the Zwickau city council. In Pirna it reached 9.9% and 3 seats in the city council under the name Pirna can more (PKM).

Political positions

On October 13, 2017, the blue party's program was published on the Citizens Forum website. It was decided at the founding meeting of the party on September 17, 2017. The party's political position can be described as liberal, democratic and conservative. In terms of content, it should be similar to the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). Furthermore, the goal was to build a new, rational conservative force within the party landscape, which is free from any national-chauvinist and right-wing populist positions. It was thus a party model in the conservative political area, which distanced itself from the growing völkisch-national forces within the AfD and the alienation of conservative basic positions within the CDU under Angela Merkel in order to counteract the increasing vacuum in the conservative camp.

Individual evidence

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