Green Nidwalden

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The Greens Nidwalden are a party from the canton of Nidwalden (Switzerland).

History and mandates

The left-green party was founded on January 8, 1982 in Stans as the Democratic Nidwalden (DN). The DN had belonged to the Swiss Green Party since April 16, 2005 . On January 1, 2009, the party was renamed Green Nidwalden .

The party won its first seat in the district administration (cantonal parliament) in 1982. At that time, it only competed in two of the eleven Nidwalden communities. As early as 1986 it had a share of 7.5% of the vote and three of the 60 seats in parliament. After a high point with eight seats in the district administrator in 1990, it will have seven members of parliament until 2010. It received 19.7% of the vote in 2002 and 15.5% in 2006 (SP with separate list). From 2010 to 2014, the Greens Nidwalden held five seats in the cantonal parliament with 14% of the vote. The party has had three district administrators and five district administrators since 2018 and, together with the SP Nidwalden, constitutes an 11-member parliamentary group. The Green District Administrator Regula Wyss-Kurath, Stans, presides over the Nidwalden District Administrator in 2019/2020.

Since the year it was founded, the party has always had members in the local community and school councils. The Greens are represented in the cantonal, higher and administrative courts.

In 1998 Leo Odermatt was elected to the government council as the first DN representative . He was in charge of the health and social department. After his resignation in 2010, the green seat of government could not be held.

The first party president was Peter Schmid from Stans from 1982 to 1984. After several men and women held this office, the party had a double chairmanship with Norbert Furrer and Vreni Perret from June 2006, and Norbert Furrer chaired the party alone from 2008 to 2015. Leo Amstutz has been President of the Greens Nidwalden since 2015.

Political orientation

The Greens Nidwalden belong to the left-green camp and are particularly committed to environmental protection, public transport, equality for the disabled, education and health care, as well as more democratic participation by the people. One of the triggers for the founding of the party was the nuclear policy with a planned nuclear repository in the Nidwalden community of Wolfenschiessen am Wellenberg. Numerous party members were also members of the MNA (participation of the Nidwalden people in nuclear facilities). Nevertheless, the party has a broader spectrum of political orientation than many other member parties of the Swiss Green Party. There are historical reasons for this. Before the DN was founded, there were only two conservative parties in Nidwalden: the Liberals (now the FDP) and the CVP. The DN thus also covered the area of ​​the then non-existent cantonal party of the Social Democrats.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Green Nidwalden. June 19, 2018, accessed on July 16, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Greens in the district administrator. June 19, 2018, accessed on July 15, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Courts. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  4. ^ Cantonal elections - Nidwalden. In: Année politique Suisse. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .

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