Direct Democracy Initiative
| Direct Democracy Initiative | |
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| Party leader | Michael Elicker |
| Secretary General | Karsten Kühn |
| founding | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Saarbrücken |
| Alignment | Direct democracy |
| Number of members | 13 (December 31, 2011) |
| Minimum age | 16 years |
The Direct Democracy Initiative (spelling: DIREKTE DEMOKRATIE Initiative) is a small political party in Germany , which is mainly active in Saarland and first stood in the Saarland state elections in 2012 .
organization
The chairman is Michael Elicker , a lawyer at Saarland University . The party maintains state associations in Saarland and Baden-Württemberg and a federal association.
Although the initiative has federal statutes and describes itself as a federal association , its political activities are, according to the Federal Agency for Civic Education , so far only limited to the Saarland .
Program
With reference to Article 20, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law , the party invokes the “implementation and expansion of direct democracy at all levels of government”. The basic program states: "The power of the state oligarchy of the established parties [is] no longer in a position to solve the great problems of the present and the future". It calls for referendums , following the example of Liechtenstein and Switzerland, among other things, for financially effective laws, which it regards as a necessary corrective to the actions of politicians. These are also suitable for curbing office patronage according to party membership or corruption. In Saarland, she calls for the quorums to be reduced and the financial reserve to be relaxed. In particular, citizens should be involved in the following subject areas: the pension system, atomic energy, the use of the " state trojan " on the Internet or the smoking ban . Among other things, the initiative advocates a statutory minimum wage , a debt brake with the exception of educational tasks, and against retirement at 67.
elections
The party was only admitted to the state elections in Saarland in 2012 in the Neunkirchen constituency with a constituency proposal and achieved a total of 0.1 percent of the votes.
A few days before the state elections, the party sued unsuccessfully against the five percent hurdle applicable in Saarland. On March 15, 2012, she demanded that the five percent hurdle no longer apply in the upcoming state elections and submitted a corresponding application for an interim order to the Saarland Constitutional Court . The reason was that the five percent hurdle disadvantaged the small parties. In addition, stable political conditions can be expected in Saarland even without the threshold clause. The party relied on the reasoning that made it possible that the threshold clause in the European elections in Germany no longer applies since 2011. The Constitutional Court dismissed the complaint on March 22 as unfounded.
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Bundestag: Accountability report of the party (PDF; 17.1 MB)
- ↑ “We're moving into the state parliament” , interview with Michael Elicker on Andere-partments.de from March 22, 2012
- ↑ a b c Party profile of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on March 26, 2012
- ↑ Saarland.de Landtag election 2012 ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2012 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.
- ↑ Court advises on five percent hurdle ( page no longer available , 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. , SR-online.de, accessed on March 20, 2012
- ^ Constitutional Court of the Saarland, judgment of March 22, 2012 - Lv 3/12 - (PDF file; 46 kB), accessed on March 26, 2012
