PETO - the young alternative

PETO - the young alternative
Party leader	Lydia Hannawald
Deputy Chairman	Painted Franke
founding	1999
Place of foundation	Monheim am Rhein
Headquarters	Monheim am Rhein
Colours)	blue
Parliament seats	26/40 (City Council Monheim am Rhein )
Number of members	465 (as of May 2018)
Average age	24 years
Website	peto.de

PETO - The young alternative (short name: PETO, Latin: "I demand") is a youth party in Germany. It was founded in 1999 and operates exclusively in Monheim am Rhein in the Mettmann district in North Rhine-Westphalia , where it achieved an absolute majority in the city council elections in 2014 . It is to be classified as a small and regional party .

development

Election results of the PETO in Monheim a. R. (1999-2014)
choice				in %
City Council 1999			6.1
City Council 2004			16.6
City Council 2009			29.6
Mayor 2009			30.4
City Council 2014			65.6
Mayor 2014			94.6

In the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal elections in 1999 , PETO immediately received 6.1 percent of all votes in Monheim am Rhein and entered the city council with two members. The party also ran for the state elections in 2000 and received 0.01 percent of the vote nationwide.

In the 2004 local elections , the result increased to 16.6% of all votes in Monheim, making PETO, with seven council members, the third largest parliamentary group in Monheim's city council after the CDU and SPD .

In the local elections in 2009 , PETO drew 29.56% of the votes cast in Monheim almost level with the CDU parliamentary group (30.17%) and became the second largest party. Like the CDU, it won 12 of 40 seats. At the same time, on August 30, 2009, Daniel Zimmermann was elected Monheim's youngest mayor to date with 30.35%.

After the 2009 election, the PETO-governed city initiated a significant reduction in business tax. Previously, the neighboring town of Langenfeld had already lowered trade taxes and thus poached company headquarters, now Monheim had the lowest tax rate and companies therefore relocated their headquarters to Monheim (without having actual production sites on site). Among other things, the chemical company BASF has a mailbox in Monheim, which increased income for Monheim and improved the financial situation. Zimmermann and PETO received a lot of praise in the media for this policy, but were also criticized for the tax haven tactics that are at the expense of the surrounding areas.

In the 2014 local elections , PETO won 26 out of 40 seats in Monheim and thus an absolute majority in the city council. Zimmermann was also confirmed as head of the city with almost 95% of the vote.

organization

The board consists of ten members. He is elected every two years by the party congress.

Each council member works on at least one committee. In addition, the council members of PETO are represented in other bodies, for example the supervisory board of MVV, the board of trustees of the Sparkassenstiftung or the board of directors of the Monheimer Kunstschule. Lisa Pientak (Riedel) has been the parliamentary group leader since 2006.

The group also includes the managing director and the two group secretaries who take care of the group office and deal with organizational activities.

Projects

In order to involve older people with their skills and experience at PETO, an AG 30 plus was founded in June 2009 : Every four to six weeks, discussions are held here on various political topics, the results of which are to be incorporated into the PETO work in municipal committees and bodies . Normally, registration for the PETO- AG-30-plus is associated with regular party membership in the PETO, but a non-binding registration as a guest is also possible.

In 2016, the decision of the Monheim City Council by the PETO parliamentary group and, against the votes of all other parliamentary groups, to give two mosque associations, including the controversial DİTİB , plots worth around 850,000 euros free of charge for the construction of a mosque, caused a stir . The PETO mayor would like these mosques to be "cityscape-defining" buildings. In return, the two communities should commit to the Basic Law and tolerance .

program

The party's program includes the following goals:

• Education and culture: improving the school yard situation
• Leisure time: Developing a bathing lake, putting the ferry back into operation, setting up a port on the Rhine, revitalizing the old town of Monheim
• Children and adolescents: Child-friendly city : Mo.Ki ( Monheim for children , prevention approach for youth welfare planning ), MoMo ( Monheim model : music school for everyone! ) Expand .
• Social and integration: Better integration of people with migrant backgrounds
• Sport: renovation of sports facilities
• Environment: expansion of solar systems on urban buildings and promotion of renewable energies and energy-saving measures
• Economy and work: expand Rhine investors, support for business start-ups
• Housing: Close vacant lots in the city center, slowly develop the Baumberg-Ost residential area , reactivate shopping centers

literature

• Daniel Zimmermann : “I can be mayor!”: At the age of 27, Germany's youngest mayor. Fackelträger-Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-3771644604 , provides information on the foundation and history of the PETO party.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ [2]
3. ^ Monheim party Peto now has 465 members in: Der Westen , May 28, 2018
4. ↑ Sandra Schmid: “At last we can really have a say, not just sit there” - Peto's student party moves into the city council of Monheim - and becomes the third largest group . In: das-parlament.de, Das Parlament, No. 41–42 of October 4, 2004. ( Memento of May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Politics made for and by young people: PETO - a youth party on the rise . In: boyng.de, January 26, 2006 ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2010 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. 
6. ↑ bundestag.de
7. ↑ Schulspiegel: nickname "Aktenfresser" - Monheim can no longer ignore the youth party on Spiegel online from September 7, 2009
8. ^ Rheinische Post: Sensation: Youth Party Provides Mayor. ( Memento of the original from September 1, 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. 
9. ↑ taz of September 10, 2009: Children in power
10. ^ City of Monheim am Rhein: Mayoral election 2009 - overall result.  ( 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.  
11. ↑ ^{a b} Germany's most brazen tax haven , WirtschaftsWoche Online, November 2, 2016
12. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/duesseldorf/wie-nrws-juengster-buergermeister-die-pleite-stadt-monheim-reich-machte-id9345157.html
13. ↑ Maximilian Popp: Young Mayor: The piggy bank has his hat on here. In: Spiegel Online . August 26, 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2018 . 
14. ^ Election result Monheim 2014
15. ^ City of Monheim am Rhein: City council election 2014 ( Memento from August 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
16. ^ Rheinische Post, Monheim: Janne Oberdieck now leads the Peto youth party. ( Memento of the original from March 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. 
17. ↑ The West: Student Party is fighting for its place as the third strongest force.
18. ↑ Sandra Schmid: Shooing the old hands - successes and defeats of young party founders. ( Memento from May 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ brands eins 09/2006 - Focus: Location determination: Proximity and the new ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 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. 
20. ↑ Susanne Frenkel: Motivation of young people to volunteer on the Internet - an empirical study with voluntary authors in online magazines (PDF; 3.9 MB), p. 170.
21. ↑ The West: 27-year-old becomes mayor of Monheim
22. ↑ City of Monheim grants Muslims land for building mosques. In: quantara.de, Internet portal of Deutsche Welle (DW). Retrieved November 2, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Petra Czyperek and Martina Stöcker: Unique initiative: Monheim is giving away land for mosques. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
24. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 19, 2011 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. 
25. ↑ Handelsblatt of August 31, 2009: Monheim, or: Where the youth now rules