Future!
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| Party leader | Oliver Schilling |
| vice-chairman | Stephan Bublitz, Michael Stage |
| founding | November 22, 1997 |
| Place of foundation | Magdeburg |
| Average age | 33 years |
| Proportion of women | 20% |
| Website | futuremagdeburg.de |
future! is a small and youth party in Germany based in Magdeburg . It has been represented in Magdeburg's city council since 1999 and from 2004 to 2009 provided an independent city council group with management in the city hall. Until December 31, 2008, the party was known as future! - known as the youth party , then as future! - The young alternative . Since January 18, 2019, the party is only called future! Oliver Wendenkampf is currently a member of the city council of the state capital Magdeburg for the party.
Content profile
The party's aim is to represent the interests of young people in a future-oriented policy at the political level. Only in this way can social conditions be taken into account.
For example, she denounces the destruction of the environment , the dismantling of social benefits, the curtailment of the rights of children and young people, youth unemployment and the “inflexible, often impractical education”, which in her eyes are problems with which young people are confronted every day. In addition, she advocates a policy “which is not determined by the opposition of political opponents, but rather by everyone working together”.
In her self-portrayal, she also emphasizes that she is “not a party to professional politicians”.
history
Prehistory and foundation
The idea for future! - the youth party was originally created as part of a journalistic research for a cover story of the then Magdeburg culture and scene magazine Günter . The name and idea was provided by the magazine's editor-in-chief at the time, Stefan Pannor. In order to test the political openness and willingness to vote among young people in Magdeburg, employees of the magazine (including the later first party chairman, Mirko Stage) designed a party program, flyer and logo of the fictitious party, the content of which was specifically taken from election and party programs of other parties. Parts of this content were later found in the first official party program. The Günter employees posted themselves in downtown Magdeburg on August 28, 1997. The following day, the Magdeburg Volksstimme reported on the alleged new party, reports in Neues Deutschland and the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung followed a few days later.
The feedback from the Magdeburg youths, but also from the regional and national media, seemed to some of those involved in the research to be large enough that it was decided during the research to turn the fictitious party into a real one. An official “exposure” of the action as a fake party never took place. The report, whose research gave the starting signal for the founding of the party, appeared on September 14, 1997 in the October edition of Günter and begins with the following sentences:
“To anticipate it right away: GÜNTER has founded a party. It's called 'future! - die Jugendpartei 'and has recently been featured in the media several times. 'Are they totally crazy now?' Some will ask in astonishment. Answer: Not really. At least not crazier than usual. But there has been a youth party for a few weeks that has nothing to do with the other well-known parties and is firmly planning to run in the 1998 state elections. (...) "
Due to massive differences in content, Stefan Pannor distanced himself from the party and the article even before the party was officially founded. He saw in this an inadmissible overlap of journalistic and political interests.
In the period that followed, future! - the youth party and made themselves independent of the Günter magazine , especially since some employees withdrew from the project due to different ideas about the content. In order to further prepare for the founding, several information booths took place in the inner cities of Halle and Magdeburg in September and October 1997 , where young passers-by were asked to use “wish lists” to indicate which political goals the new party should stand for. These wishes flowed into a new draft of the party and election program under the leadership of Mirko Stage (later first chairman of the party) and Ulrike Müller. Many of the political principles formulated at the time can still be found in the party's guidelines today.
The party was then officially founded on November 22, 1997 by 72 mainly young people at the founding party conference in Magdeburg in the AMO-Kulturhaus . It was the first independent youth party in Germany .
Development since 1998
For the state election on April 26, 1998 in Saxony-Anhalt , the party ran for the first time in an election and received 11,434 votes, which corresponds to 0.8%.
In the 1999 municipal elections , future! in Magdeburg 1.6% of the vote and was able to send a representative to the local city council. During the legislative period from 1999 to 2004, future! in the Magdeburg city council a joint parliamentary group with the Greens .
In the 2004 local elections, future! expand his share of the vote to 3.6% and take two seats on the Magdeburg city council . Since then, future! also for the first time as an independent parliamentary group. In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2006 , the party only achieved 0.37%.
On September 24, 2006, the 13th party congress in the nine-year history of the party took place in Magdeburg. After Mirko Stage, Doreen Stegner, Frank Kleine and Michael Stage, Stephan Bublitz became the fifth chairman to head the youth party. The most important result was that start-up initiatives by youth parties from other federal states should be supported more intensively in the future.
With the 14th party congress, which took place on December 2, 2007, a new party program was adopted and Oliver Schilling, a candidate for the mayor of his own, was set up for the election on March 9, 2008 in Magdeburg. In the election he came in 6th place with 2.60%.
The 15th party congress on December 7, 2008 set a new course for the party. In addition to the election of the new board, the decision in principle to participate in the 2009 municipal elections in Magdeburg with the aim of creating the fourth-largest parliamentary group after the election, it was also decided to rename the party on January 1, 2009.
Development since 2009
As of January 1, 2009, the party has given itself a new name and a new logo. From future! - the youth party became future! - The young alternative. As a named youth party, the party saw itself often misunderstood in public, because it z. B. as part of her local council work in Magdeburg not only committed to typical youth issues, but also to a wide range of political topics, such as B. urban development and economic development, positioned and act accordingly. In the 2009 local elections, the party was able to improve its result from 2004 slightly, but fell far short of its goal of becoming the fourth-largest group. Due to a change in the law, it lost its parliamentary group status. The two elected future city councilors, including one non-party, joined forces with the SPD and the city council of the Animal Welfare Party to form the joint city council group SPD-Tierschutzpartei-future! together. With 17 members, this represented the strongest force in the town hall of the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt. At the end of October 2012, future! the cooperation in the previous group.
Until the local elections on May 25, 2014, the four-person council group consisted of city councilors Mirko Stage and Oliver Wendenkampf and youth welfare committee members Melanie Ockert and Stephan Bublitz (deputies). Oliver Wendenkampf has been a non-attached member of the city council of Magdeburg since the 2014 local elections. On September 26, 2016 the parliamentary group Die Linke decided to include Oliver Wendenkampf in its parliamentary group, which is now called DIE LINKE / future! wearing. In addition, sit for future! since then Stephan Bublitz and Melanie Ockert (deputy) in the youth welfare committee.
At the party congress on January 17, 2019, the members decided to only use the future! to occur.
Local politics
In more than 13 years, numerous ideas have been implemented, such as the family ticket in swimming pools, more investments in daycare centers, schools, sports halls and playgrounds. Also the abolition of parking fees in Olven 1, a clear no to the discussed WOBAU sale, closer cooperation between universities and adult education centers and the introduction of the 115 authorities' emergency number in Magdeburg, the opening of the school catchment areas on a trial basis, the transmission of the city council meeting, the receipt of the AMO , the extension of the current bridge with a pylon bridge, the clearance of graffiti areas (star bridge and noise barrier in the north of Magdeburg) were made possible by applications and the efforts of the city councils. The topics participatory budgeting for Magdeburg, procurement of green electricity for properties in the state capital Magdeburg and the general opening of school catchment areas for all parts of the city remain points that future! still want to implement.
Election results
| elections | Result | Seats |
| State election of Saxony-Anhalt 1998 | 0.8%, 11,434 votes | (no) |
| Local election Magdeburg 1999 | 1.6%, 3,713 votes | 1 seat in the Magdeburg city council |
| Local election Magdeburg 2004 | 3.5%, 6,649 votes | 2 seats in the Magdeburg city council |
| State election of Saxony-Anhalt 2006 | 0.4%, 3,363 votes | (no) |
| Mayor election of Magdeburg 2008 | 2.6%, 1,795 votes | (no) |
| Local election Magdeburg 2009 | 3.8%, 7,627 votes | 2 seats in the Magdeburg city council |
| Magdeburg municipal election 2014 | 2.0% 4,345 votes | 1 seat in the Magdeburg city council |
| Local election Magdeburg 2019 | 2.9% 8,651 votes | 2 seats in the Magdeburg city council |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magdeburg city council election results after the re-election of 08.09.2019 in the electoral district 1209. City of Magdeburg, accessed on 28 December 2019 .