Reform Party of the United States of America
| Reform Party of the United States of America | |
|---|---|
| Party leader | David Collison (Chairman) |
| founding | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Dallas |
| Alignment |
Catch-all party populism protectionism centrism anti-corruption |
| Colours) | Red Blue |
| Parliament seats |
Senate : 0/100 House of Representatives : 0/435 |
| Website | reformparty.org |
The Reform Party of the United States of America (also Reform Party USA or RPUSA , German Reform Party of the United States of America ) is an American political party founded in 1995 by entrepreneur and presidential candidate from 1992 , Ross Perot .
The party's main goal is to fundamentally reform the US political system. She advocates overcoming the two-party system as she sees the Democratic Party and Republicans as corrupt and not interested in solving the country's problems. The Reform Party demands u. a .:
- a balanced national budget and a massive reduction in American national debt,
- a reform of campaign financing and a limit on party donations ,
- the tightening of existing immigration laws ,
- a protectionist foreign trade policy and the withdrawal of the USA from free trade agreements like NAFTA , CAFTA and WTO ,
- a limit on the term of office of US Congressmen ,
- a direct election of the US president by the people without an electoral system .
In the elections for the US presidency in 1996 she ran as a candidate for Ross Perot (8.4 percent of the vote) and the former Republican Pat Buchanan (0.4 percent) in 2000 . In the 2004 election campaign , the party's own presidential candidate was not nominated. Instead, she called for the election of the independently running consumer lawyer Ralph Nader (0.4 percent).
In the 2000 election, the Republican President of the United States, Donald Trump , who has been in office since January 2017, also considered running as a presidential candidate for the Reform Party.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ US presidential election: Pat Buchanan splits the reformers , article from August 11, 2000 on tagesspiegel.de