Direct Democratic Party of Switzerland

Direct Democratic Party of Switzerland
Establishment date:	July 28, 2012
Place of foundation:	Well SZ
Ideology:	national conservative
Presidium:	Ignaz Bearth
Members:	About 100 (as of October 2014)
Share of voters:	0.04% (as of: National Council election 2015 )
Website:	http://www.dps-partei.ch/

The Direct Democratic Party of Switzerland (DPS) was a small Swiss party that existed from 2012 to 2017 and was then incorporated into the PNOS .

history

Party formation

The Direct Democratic Party of Switzerland was founded on July 28, 2012 in Brunnen in the canton of Schwyz . Ignaz Bearth was elected first party president . A party board of nine and a vice presidency of four were also elected. At the time of its founding, the party is said to have had forty members. On the occasion of the founding of the party, the following goals were stated: no EU accession, freedom of expression preserved, stopping Islamization , low taxes, optimized asylum policy and cooperation between “European homeland-loving parties”.

Connections to PEGIDA

Known to the public, the DPS was, as party president Ignaz Bearth in January 2015 because of his right-wing past, bundesanwaltschaftlicher investigation and probably bought Facebook - Likes as spokesman for the Pegida resigned Switzerland.

National Council elections 2015

The DPS has announced that it will run for the National Council elections on October 18, 2015 in the cantons of Solothurn , St. Gallen , Thurgau , Bern and Zurich . The DPS in the cantons of Solothurn (0.7% share of the vote), St. Gallen (0.1% share of the vote) and Thurgau (0.2% share of the vote) took off, with modest success.

resolution

In June 2017, DPS merged with PNOS . For this purpose, the DPS was dissolved and included in the PNOS.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Samuel Burri: Pegida people want to join the National Council. In: srf.ch. July 23, 2015, accessed September 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ DPS distances itself from racism ( memento of the original dated February 14, 2015 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. , Article in the Thurgauer Zeitung of October 12, 2014, posted on dps.ch, accessed on February 14, 2015 
3. ↑ PNOS: PNOS - Consistent, Social, National! Retrieved July 15, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Switzerland has a new right-wing party , on tageszeitung.ch, from July 29, 2012, accessed on February 14, 2015
5. ↑ Ignaz Bearth resigns as Pegida spokesman , on blick.ch, January 16, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2015
6. ↑ Pegida Switzerland cancels demonstration , on 20min.ch, from February 3, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2015
7. ↑ The Pegida party comes up - with the former SVP district president. In: Solothurner Zeitung . July 13, 2015, accessed September 29, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Generous suffrage for small parties ( memento of May 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), on Tagblatt.ch, January 18, 2015.
9. ↑ National Council elections, final status. Canton Solothurn, October 18, 2015, accessed on December 16, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Canton of St. Gallen National Council election 2015. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Canton of St. Gallen, October 18, 2015, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 15, 2015 . 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.  
11. ↑ List results. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Canton Thurgau, October 18, 2015, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 16, 2015 . 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.  
12. ↑ Michael Sahli: "Merger of the patriotic camp of Switzerland": Swiss right-wing extremists ally! In: blick.ch. June 25, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017 .