Independent citizen council Trier
The Independent citizens' representation Trier (UBT) is a parliamentary group in the 1992 City Council of Trier represented. It emerged as a split from the Trier SPD .
Emergence
In 1991 Manfred Maximini, the then chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Trier city council, strove for the office of head of culture. However, the majority of his party comrades preferred another candidate. From this a fundamental dispute arose, so that Maximini resigned from the SPD parliamentary group in January 1992 together with five other council members. In June 1992 the Independent Citizens' Representation Maximini (UBM) was founded as a registered association . In 2009, the group was renamed the Free Voting Community Trier (FWG), and in 2017 it was renamed Independent Citizens' Representation Trier (UBT).
program
Proximity to the citizen and independence of parties are repeatedly mentioned in the UBT's programmatic statements as fundamental principles of its policy. Active economic development, the strengthening of local self-government and the political participation of the local councils , a school renovation program and the rejection of unilateral support for the environmental association are among the most important local political goals in the current electoral term. In the political spectrum , the UBT is to be found in the middle class.
Further development
In the local elections in 1994, the Independent Citizens' Representation Maximini won 17.0 percent of the vote and won nine seats on the city council. In 1999 it fell to 12.7 percent and had to give up two mandates. However, it won it back in 2004, as it was able to improve to 15.5 percent. At the same time, the UBM provided the mayor in four Trier districts . The UBM often played a key role in forming a majority in the city council, in which the CDU is traditionally the strongest parliamentary group. There is much to suggest that the votes of the UBM in the - albeit secret - elections for the 2001 cultural department and the 2007 building department were decisive for the victory of the CDU candidates. However, the UBM always fought vehemently against the role of majority procurer for the CDU, which was often attributed to it by its opponents, but also by independent observers of Trier local politics.
Manfred Maximini, who had previously handed over the chairmanship of the UBM to Hermann Kleber, did not run for the local elections in 2009 after 40 years on the Trier city council. The UBM slipped to 9.1 percent and only had five city council members and two mayor. In November 2009, the general assembly decided to rename the association to the Free Voting Community Trier on January 1, 2010.
In the 2014 local elections , the FWG's share of the vote decreased further to 7.5 percent. It still has four seats on the Trier city council. In addition, the UBT continues to provide the mayors in the districts of Euren and Pfalzel . In the two ballots for the election of the new mayor of Trier in September / October 2014, the FWG made no recommendation.
In January 2017, the name was changed to Independent Citizens' Representation Trier eV (short: UBT).
Individual evidence
- ^ Trierischer Volksfreund, February 1, 1992
- ^ Website of the FWG, homepage , accessed on January 1, 2010
- ↑ Shaping Trier together. Principles and goals of FWG Trier eV , accessed on September 16, 2012
- ↑ See e.g. E.g .: Pressure for years , Rathaus Zeitung, March 24, 2009
- ↑ UBM renamed ( Memento from November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), 16vor.de, November 13, 2009
literature
- Hermann Kleber: The history of UBM. In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch. 46, 2006, pp. 137-148.