List Dr. Martin
| List Dr. Martin | |
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| Party leader | Hans-Peter Martin |
| National Council mandates |
0/183 |
| Mandates in the European Parliament |
0/18 |
| EP club | non-attached |
The list of Dr. Martin - For Democracy, Control, Justice (list abbreviations MATIN, MARTIN or HPM) was an Austrian party. For the first time, the journalist Hans-Peter Martin entered the 2004 European elections with his “List of Dr. Hans-Peter Martin - For real control in Brussels ”(MARTIN). The party received 13.98% of the valid votes and thus 2 of the 18 Austrian seats in the European Parliament . In the 2006 National Council election , the party failed to make it into the National Council with 2.8% of the vote .
In the European elections in 2009 , the list in Austria reached 17.7% and thus entered the European Parliament with 3 of the 17 Austrian seats . By April 2011, two of the three MPs left the list again, accusing Martin of a lack of transparency. In the 2014 European elections , the party did not run and has not been active since.
program
The party considered comprehensive openness in information about government action to be essential for a functioning democratic state in the 21st century. The list also advocated binding referendums and direct democracy. The party demanded a compulsory referendum on a bill if 500,000 citizens demand it. This does not apply to issues that contradict fundamental human rights (e.g. reintroduction of the death penalty or euthanasia). Other program items included the fight against corruption, economical management, lowering the tax burden, preventing Turkey from joining the EU, neutrality, the environment, health and human rights.
National Council election 2006
On July 29, 2006, Hans-Peter Martin announced that for the National Council election on October 1, 2006, Dr. Martin - to run for democracy, control, justice . For this purpose, 8311 declarations of support were collected throughout Austria by August 25, 2006, which means that the threshold of 2600 declarations of support required for a candidacy was exceeded. Hans-Peter Martin had a powerful ally in the Kronen Zeitung . In a full-page column in the Kronen Zeitung, he was able to announce that he would run for the upcoming National Council elections with his citizens' list.
Since the official announcement of the candidacy, the Kronenzeitung has come under fire from the WAZ , the half-owner. Hans Dichand , editor of the Kronen Zeitung, rejected the criticism of the handling of the "Krone" in connection with Martin's candidacy in the National Council election. In an interview with the Austrian news magazine profil , Dichand said: "Martin was never supported by the 'Krone' in the election campaign." According to this, Dichand would have given Martin the "opportunity to report in detail about the difficulties that individual citizens encounter in Austria, if they want to run. ”According to Dichand, it could only be interpreted as an electoral aid if Martin can appear as a candidate, ie has 2,600 signatures and he would continue to write in the“ Krone ”.
There were problems in the election campaign with the ORF report and with the Burgenland top candidate Gabriele Wladyka, who split from Martin during the election campaign after Wladyka's political misconduct had been spread by the press.
With 2.8%, the Martin list did not reach the 4% required for entry into the National Council.
European parliamentarians
- Hans-Peter Martin , 1999–2014 (1999 on the SPÖ list, 2004/2009 on Martin's list), non-attached
- Karin Resetarits , from 2004, joined the ALDE parliamentary group in June 2005
- Angelika Werthmann , from 2009, left the Martin delegation in July 2010
- Martin Ehrenhauser , from 2009, resigned from the Martin delegation in April 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Council election 2006; the candidate parties ( memento of March 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (archived at Internet Archive )
- ↑ European elections 2009, provisional overall result after complete counting of the postal votes
- ↑ List of Dr. Martin: http://www.bmi.gv.at/ . 16 Sep 2006.
- ^ Die Presse , April 15, 2011: Hans-Peter Martin loses last comrade .
- ↑ Philipp Hacker-Walton: Martin: "I was a buffer against the right". In: Courier . August 20, 2015, accessed October 6, 2017 .
- ↑ List of Dr. Martin: http://www.weisse.at/ . 16 Sep 2006.
- ^ ETI: http://www.hpmartin.net/ . 16 Sep 2006.
- ^ Christian Fürst: http://www.stern.de/ . August 2, 2006.
- ↑ Der Standard: http://derstandard.at/ . Aug 7, 2006.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: BMI National Council election 2006 - election day, deadline, final overall result . October 20, 2006.