Republican Movement
The Republican Movement was a nationalist political party in Switzerland .
history
The Republican Movement split from National Action (NA) after a dispute between James Schwarzenbach and NA.
In 1971, the movement immediately won seven seats in the National Council , which it probably owed to Schwarzenbach's popularity: Walter Bräm (Zurich), Josef Fischer (Aargau), Hans Ulrich Graf (Zurich), Wilfried Naegeli (Thurgau), Werner Reich ( Zurich), James Schwarzenbach (Zurich) and Eduard von Waldkirch (Bern). Ulrich Schlüer was the movement's secretary . Their news body was The Republican .
Both
“The National Council elections in 1975 confirmed the downward trend, which was also connected with the splits within the movement. In 1978 Schwarzenbach resigned as party president and resigned his seat on the National Council. In the following year, the Republicans failed to make the leap into the national legislature, which points to the close connection between leader figure, movement and mobilization typical of right-wing populist movements, or as Drews put it: 'Schwarzenbach was the Republicans and the Republicans were Schwarzenbach '. "
From the end of the 1970s, it almost completely disappeared from the political scene. On April 22, 1989 the party decided to dissolve.
literature
- Adrian Urech : On the ideology of National Action and the Republicans in the mirror of the newspapers “People and Homeland” and “Republicans”. Licentiate thesis at the University of Freiburg , 1995.