Alliance 21 / RRP

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Alliance 21 / RRP
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Manfred Link by-RaBoe 02.jpg
Party leader Manfred Link
vice-chairman Marie Luise Saße, Manfred Tessin, Klaus Lukas
Federal Managing Director Wolfgang Kurtenbach
Federal Treasurer Werner Oppel
Honorary Chairman Helmut Polzer
founding August 25, 2007
Place of foundation Lochhausen
resolution May 14, 2016
Headquarters Gersthofen
Number of members 1,050

Bündnis 21 / RRP was a small German party . It was founded on August 25, 2007 as a party for pensioners (also known as the “Pensioners Party”, short name: RRP ). On September 15, 2012, the party's federal convention decided to rename it Alliance 21 / RRP. The party disbanded in May 2016.

Party platform

In the party program of the Pensioners' Party, only the three topics of pension provision, health and education were emphasized. Among other things, the party demanded a state-guaranteed minimum pension of 1000 euros. Furthermore, a merger of the state pension systems with the pension insurance as well as the legally binding introduction of company pension schemes were called for. An increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67 years was rejected.

In health policy, the party called for citizens' insurance and the abolition of the health fund. In educational policy, state funding for the entire school and university education was required instead of the previous child benefit and the introduction of school uniforms .

structure

Regional associations and their chairmen

The party had state associations in four federal states. The Bavarian regional association was the largest with around 500 members. The second largest regional association of Bavaria presented Lower Saxony .

Regional association Chairman (as of October 24, 2012)
Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg there is no chairman
Bavaria Bavaria Peter Lachmann
Berlin Berlin Manfred Tessin
Bremen Bremen Hans-Joachim Drewes
Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Claus Strobler
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Dieter Müller
Saxony Saxony There is no chairman

history

Election results in state and nationwide elections
as a pensioner party (RRP)
Bavaria September 28, 2008 0.2%
European Parliament June 7, 2009 0.4%
Bundestag September 27, 2009 0.2%
Schleswig-Holstein September 27, 2009 0.2%
Brandenburg September 27, 2009 0.5%
Bremen May 22, 2011 0.9%
as Alliance 21 / RRP
Lower Saxony 20th January 2013 0.1%
Bundestag 22nd September 2013 0.0%

The RRP was initiated by a letter to the editor from Helmut Polzer in Münchner Merkur on August 10, 2007. On August 25, 2007, the "Deutsche Eiche" was founded in Lochhausen .

The RRP ran for the first time in the state elections in Bavaria in 2008 and ran in the districts of Lower Franconia , Upper Palatinate and Swabia . The party called for the following: "Pensioners, fight back against pension fraud."

In the state elections it received 0.2% of the votes across Bavaria, the party achieved its best result in the Augsburg-Stadt-West district with 2.0%. At the administrative district level, it received 0.6% in Swabia and 0.5% in Upper Palatinate and Lower Franconia and thus missed the election target it had set itself to receive 1% of the votes in each of these districts.

In the 2009 European elections , the party received 0.4% of the vote in Germany. In the same year, the RRP ran for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein and Brandenburg and with five state lists for the federal election . In the Bundestag election it received 0.2% of the vote.

In the elections in which the RRP was in direct competition with the Pensioners Party Germany (RENTNER), it was weaker than this. As a result, from October 2009 talks were held with the Pensioners' Party Germany about cooperation. In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 , the RRP supported the Pensioners Party of Germany. The merger was originally supposed to be completed by December 2010, but was postponed to 2011 and finally rejected by the Pensioner Party Germany. Talks about cooperation and unification were also held with the ddp , the AdM , the family party and the pirates , but they failed.

In the general election in Bremen on May 22, 2011, it received 0.9% of the vote. In the simultaneous election to the city council in Bremerhaven , it reached its first municipal seat. In November 2012, the two city councilors of the Left also joined the RRP, one of which switched to the citizens on March 28, 2013 in anger .

After the previous merger efforts had failed, the party decided to adopt a new name in order to appeal to other groups of voters in addition to pensioners. The choice finally fell on Bündnis 21 / RRP .

In the 2013 federal election , the party ran with three state lists and received 5,324 (0.0%) first and 8,578 (0.0%) second votes.

From spring 2014, the party held talks with the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) about a possible merger. Some members of the party switched to the ÖDP, including the previous federal chairman. The party disbanded on May 14, 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of the Federal Association of the RRP
  2. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/politik/wahlen/wer-haben-zur-wahl/bundestag-2013/165516/buendnis-21-rrp
  3. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education on the 2009 Bundestag election
  4. ^ Program of the Pensioners Party. January 10, 2009, accessed September 11, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Documents from the Federal Returning Officer ( Memento from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 699 kB)
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Overview of the board members, statutes and program of the RRP ( Memento from June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Elections, suffrage and electoral systems . Wahlrecht.de. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  9. ^ RRP homepage: History of the origins of the RRP
  10. ↑ Press release from the Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing: State election on September 28, 2008 ( Memento of June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Munich, July 3, 2008
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ preliminary official final result
  13. ↑ http://www.rrp-bund.de/pages//posts/presseerklaerung-rp--rrp16.php Press release RRP / Pensionner
  14. ↑ http://www.rrp-bund.de/pages/aktuelles/rrp-pressemitteilungen.php
  15. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ http://www.altersdiskriminierung.de/themen/artikel.php?id=3334
  17. ↑ National elections 2011: Preliminary result is certain. (PDF; 32 kB) State Returning Officer of the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen, May 25, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2011 .
  18. ↑ Left retirees ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ See documents on the Federal Party Conference 2014.2 of the ÖDP, page 64: https://www.oedp.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bundesverband/partei/Antragsheft2014_2.pdf
  20. ↑ Manfred Link is now (2016) a member of the federal board of the ÖDP: https://www.oedp.de/partei/bundesvorstand/