Party congress resolution
A party congress resolution is a guideline or fundamental decision adopted by the majority of the delegates at a supra-regional general assembly of a party ( party congress for short ) .
Emergence
A party congress resolution is decided by voting by the legitimized representatives of the local subgroups present (e.g. local association of a party) in a vote.
Usually, applications for a single party congress resolution are submitted by specialist committees and working groups or by the executive committee or by party members. In the case of individual applications (from individual members), a decision can be made in advance on the admissibility and a discussion phase usually takes place afterwards, in which members are granted a (usually very short) speaking time on request in order to present their position on the matter to the entire party congress. This is usually followed by a drafting of various resolutions according to the various positions. The various resolutions are then voted on by the entire party congress, and the resolution that receives the most votes becomes the party congress resolution. A comprehensive collection of resolutions sometimes forms a new party program , which is then discussed and voted on in a similar manner.
effect
Formally, a party congress resolution is a binding guideline for all party representatives. In fact, however, members of the government often disregard party congress resolutions in favor of a political strategy. This is often inevitable , especially in political coalitions of two or more parties that then form the government. Often, however, members of the government also disregard party congress resolutions of their own accord (strategy, their own different views, lack of funds for implementation, etc.). In extreme cases, the conflict with the party guidelines can lead to the initiation of a party exclusion procedure, which, however, has no formal impact on the formation of a government, since changes are only possible for the government leader (e.g. chancellor). Accordingly, conflicts with party congress resolutions are usually sat out without consequences.
This often results in a certain powerlessness of a party congress to exert influence on current politics , but because the party congress not only decides on the distribution of political offices in the run-up to the formation of a government, but has a decisive influence in the long term.
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