Food stands UP
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| Basic data | |
| Art | Voter group |
| Alignment |
Maoism , Stalinism, Marxism-Leninism |
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| speaker | Bodo Urbat |
| Spokeswoman | Petra Kemberg |
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| Website | www.essen-estand-auf.de |
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| Memberships | Local electoral alliance |
"Essen stands UP" - Alliance for alternative, independent and progressive local politics (UP) is a group of voters in Essen . UP is an acronym for alternative, independent, and progressive . AUF describes itself as a non-partisan electoral alliance, but members of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) participate in influential positions in it, the former AUF city council member is an MLPD member. The group is not to be confused with the Christian-conservative small party, which is also abbreviated to "UP" .
Content
In 2004, AUF demanded a free kindergarten place for all kindergarten children in Essen with a maximum group size of 20 children. Sufficient day places in the kindergarten should also be created for children under 3 years of age. To ensure the health of children, the health check-ups in the kindergarten are to be reintroduced by the Essen Health Department.
In 2009, AUF demanded that a progressive tax on sales be introduced for companies in Essen . The city should create full-fledged jobs by tightening the procurement guidelines.
AUF opposes the planned extension of the A52 to the Essen-Nord junction. Here, Petra Kemberg (board spokeswoman for “Essen stands UP” and resident) argues with the high levels of fine dust in the north of Essen and the extreme noise pollution that must be reduced.
AUF is against the state rescue package for banks or against the 2005 merging of unemployment benefits and social assistance to form unemployment benefit II . Since August 2004, Essen stands ON Monday demonstrations against welfare cuts . Every week 20 to 100 people demonstrated against Hartz IV.
Confrontation with IG Metall
The IG Metall food threatened their two members Yazgülü Kahraman champion and Horst dotting with expulsion from the union because they for the 2009 federal election as candidates on the open list of the MLPD in food as being a member of MLPD with a membership of IG Metall is incompatible.
elections
In the elections for the 14th Essen City Council in 2004 , AUF stood for the first time, achieved 1719 votes (0.8%) and joined the council with Dietrich Keil (member of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany). There UP formed a parliamentary group with the party Die Linke (two city councilors) and the DKP (one city council). In the 2009 elections , Essen stands UP was able to defend one seat with 0.7 percent, which Dietrich Keil took. In 2014 , the association lost more than half of its voters and has not been represented on the city council since.
| choice | be right | % | Mandates |
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| Local election in Essen 2004 | |||
| Council election | 1,719 | 0.8% | 1 of 82 |
| Local election in Essen 2009 | |||
| Council election | 1,587 | 0.7% | 1 of 82 |
| Local election in Essen 2014 | |||
| Council election | 716 | 0.3% | 0 of 82 |
Surrounding organizations
- In some other cities, groups of voters who call themselves “OPEN” have formed from the MLPD's environment.
- Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD): It initiated this and other “local electoral alliances” in order to have its party members elected to the city councils.
- The Whitsun youth meeting in the neighboring city of Gelsenkirchen is supported by Essen stands UP , UP Gelsenkirchen and MLPD .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dagmar Schmitt: Comprehensive supply of daycare places is necessary - against the closure of children's and youth facilities. (No longer available online.) In: essen-estand-auf.de. May 2004, archived from the original on August 10, 2004 ; Retrieved April 18, 2009 .
- ↑ Municipal budget crisis - how should it go on? (No longer available online.) In: essen-estand-auf.de. June 2004, archived from the original on October 27, 2004 ; Retrieved April 18, 2009 .
- ↑ Susanne Storck: Agreement probably impossible. In: The West - Portal of the WAZ media group. Neue Ruhr Zeitung , March 23, 2009, accessed on July 6, 2015 .