Party of non-voters
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| Party leader | Klaus Schlagmann |
| Deputy Chairman | Thomas Gretscher |
| founding | 1998 |
| Place of foundation | Cologne |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Cologne |
| Bundestag seats | 0 |
| Number of members | 400 |
| Website | www.parteidernichtwaehler.de |
The party of non-voters (also: non-voter party; short name: non-voters ) was a small German party founded by hotelier and former CDU politician Werner Peters in 1998 in Cologne . Their main demands their program counted as creating more direct democracy in the form of referendum and - polls .
Party history
After it was founded in 1998, it stood in the 1998 Bundestag election only in North Rhine-Westphalia and achieved 6,827 votes (0.1%). In the North Rhine-Westphalian state elections in 2000 , she received 175 votes (0.0%), but could only be elected in one constituency . She was no longer approved by the Federal Returning Officer for the following federal elections . The reason was temporary inactivity.
In May 2011 the party was re-established in Cologne. In October 2011, a first regional association was founded in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was admitted to the 2013 federal election and received 11,349 votes (0.03%). This party disbanded on December 10, 2016.
Self-image and party goals
The party saw itself on the one hand as a forum and collecting basin for "politically motivated non-voters", on the other hand as a "mouthpiece for reform movements". According to the program, the main demands and objectives of the party were:
- Strengthening democracy through the introduction of direct democratic elements (referendums, referendums, direct elections and the possibility of voting out office holders).
- Strengthening of the competences of the members of parliament by abolishing the parliamentary group requirement
- Strict separation of government office and parliamentary mandate. Abolition of the Parliamentary State Secretaries .
- Limitation of parliamentary and government offices to two legislative terms .
- Decoupling of political activity from professional career.
- Limitation of state party funding to the mere reimbursement of the costs of a reasonable election campaign.
- Simultaneous holding of all state elections on one day in the middle of the legislative period of the Bundestag to avoid a permanent election campaign .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bpb.de/politik/wahlen/wer-haben-zur-wahl/bundestag-2013/165533/partei-der-nichtwaehler
- ^ A politician refuses to vote, Stern , June 9, 2009.
- ↑ https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/dam/jcr/a9f8dd9d-8cde-48ad-9915-4cdf030636b5/ausgewaehlte_daten_politischer_vereinigungen.pdf
- ↑ http://www.parteidernichtwaehler.de/grundsaetze.php Principles of the party