Green alternative Freiburg
The Green Alternative Freiburg (GAF) is a left-wing alternative, socially and ecologically oriented voters' association in Freiburg im Breisgau , which split off from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in 2008 .
Emergence
In June 2008, the local councilors Monika Stein and Coinneach McCabe announced that they were leaving the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen- Junge Freiburg and found a green opposition . They justified their step with "no longer existing mutual respect" between them and the Freiburg mayor Dieter Salomon and his supporters in the alliance green parliamentary group, which ironed off nonconforming opinions with "irrelevant arguments, simply to show loyalty to the mayor. Both of them no longer wanted to support decisions made solely for reasons of power politics. Only as independent municipal councilors could they “protect fundamental rights and demand social and ecological policies”. Stein and McCabe criticized in particular the police action and the inability to compromise towards left-wing alternative scene and social fringe groups, the planned and failed city building sale , blanket cuts in the cultural sector and the alcohol ban in the Freiburg bar district "Bermuda Triangle", which was found to be illegal by the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg in July 2009 as an expression of a new policy of repression.
Representation in the local council until the local elections in June 2009
The subsequent formation of a “ counting community ” in the Freiburg municipal council with the parliamentary group of the Independent Lists (UL) failed for legal reasons. Both city councils retained their seats on the municipal council committees.
Program for the municipal council election 2009
The GAF election program for the Freiburg municipal council election in June 2009 was geared towards
- local and global environmental protection
- social economic policy with the primacy of politics over economy, rejecting neoliberalism
- Strengthening civil rights and protecting fundamental rights; Video surveillance restriction
- Creating and maintaining accessible and affordable educational opportunities
- Protection of the urban housing stock: Another attempt to sell the Freiburg housing association Stadtbau is expressly rejected.
Representation in the local council since the local elections in June 2009
Stein and McCabe were confirmed as councilors in the local council election in June 2009 with an election result of 3.9 percent.
Although additional funds and the possibility of filling offices in the local council are dependent on the parliamentary group status, and coalition offers were made to the GAF by various groups in the town hall, the general meeting on July 23, 2009 unanimously decided that Stein and McCabe, although "a close and trusting Cooperation "with Independent Women (UF), Kulturliste Freiburg (KULT), Linke Liste / Solidarity City (LisST) and Young Freiburg, but should not enter into a group to maintain independence.
Representation in the local council since the local elections in June 2014
In the 2014 local elections , the Green Alternative Freiburg lost 0.7 percentage points and one seat. Together with Young Freiburg (2 won mandates) and The Party (1 won mandate) it joined the JPG group.
criticism
The association gained national media attention in 2012 through internal disputes about its board spokeswoman Tina Gröbmayr, who also assisted in the defense of a neo-Nazi as part of her work as a lawyer. The disputes led to the resignation and the election of the new board.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freiburg alcohol bans illegal press release of the VGH from July 28, 2009
- ^ [1] Homepage of the Green Alternative Freiburg (GAF): Press release on leaving the parliamentary group with Young Freiburg Alliance 90 / The Greens from June 19, 2008
- ^ Spin-off from the Freiburg Greens: Dark clouds in green idyll taz.de from August 1, 2008
- ↑ Joachim Rödererbadische-zeitung.de: Freiburg: Dispute in the town hall over committee seats , Badische Zeitung, November 11, 2008, accessed on July 3, 2012
- ↑ Election program 2009 on the GAF homepage ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2009 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.
- ↑ Reply of the Green Alternative Freiburg to the “election test stones” of the citizens' initiative “Housing is human right” ( memento of the original from September 3, 2016 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. (PDF; 110 kB)
- ^ Local elections in Freiburg: Greens are the strongest parliamentary group for the first time in the Badische Zeitung on June 9, 2009; Memorandum for black-green coalition Südkurier from June 10, 2009
- ^ Left list wants to continue to form a coalition with the Green Alternative Badische Zeitung of June 15, 2009; Further alliances for the municipal council: Cult and women go back to the Linken Badische Zeitung from July 24, 2009
- ↑ GAF will remain independent in the municipal council ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Declaration on the GAF homepage of July 24, 2009; Green alternative remains solo in the Badische Zeitung municipal council from July 25, 2009
- ^ The Left Lawyer and the Neo-Nazi , Legal tribune Online, June 25, 2012
- ^ Controversy over neo-Nazi lawyer: Defend right, disappoint left , Spiegel Online, July 12, 2012
- ↑ Green alternative: Leadless marathon debate , Badische Zeitung, September 6, 2012.
