Pro-Citizen Party

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The Pro-Bürger-Party ( PBP ) was a small right-wing populist party in Germany . It existed from February 28, 2003 to June 10, 2005.

The chairman of the federal party was the former CDU member of the Bundestag (1994 to 1998) Frederick Schulze , who later became a member of the Rule of Law Party . René Schneider, who at the beginning of 2005 was called the "designated general secretary" of the pro-citizens party, had disputed the party leadership with Ronald Schill in 2002 .

In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2004 , the PBP won several mandates: in the district council of the Recklinghausen district (1 mandate), as well as in the town halls of the cities of Duisburg (2), Castrop-Rauxel (1), Gelsenkirchen (1), Herten (2 ) and Recklinghausen (1).

In 2005 there was resistance against the wing of the former Schill party members. Schulze resigned from this office in April 2005 because of internal quarrels, and subsequently also from the pro-citizen party. In the state elections in NRW in May 2005, he ran for the gray . On June 10, 2005 the dissolution of the party and its state and district associations was resolved.

The attempt by other members from Gelsenkirchen to still take part in the 2005 Bundestag elections failed because the Federal Electoral Committee at its meeting on August 12, 2005 refused to recognize the PBP as a party. The Federal Returning Officer invited the then party chairman Reinhard Erich Leier to Berlin . When asked why the previous party conference lasted only 18 minutes, Leier is said to have replied: "There used to be some from the Schill Party, we had to put them away. That was strange." Lyre is also said not to have been able to explain what was in the adopted election manifesto. In 2006, remnants of the PERSPEKTIVE party joined, a merger of several small parties (see civil social union ).

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