Patriotic Union

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Patriotic Union
Patriotic Union logo
Party president Günther Fritz
Vice President Daniela Wellenzohn-Erne (Oberland), Mario Wohlwend (Unterland)
Deputy Head of Government Daniel Risch
Councilor Dominique Hasler
Group spokesman Günter Vogt
founding 1936
Headquarters Vaduz
Alignment Christian Democracy
Conservatism
Economic Liberalism
Colours) red
Parliamentary mandates State Parliament ( 2017 )
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website www.vu-online.li

The Fatherland Union (VU) is one of the two major parties in the Principality of Liechtenstein , alongside the Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) . It was originally oriented towards social liberalism, but in the course of time it moved ever further to the right and programmatically gradually moved closer to the bourgeois FBP with which it traditionally forms a coalition.

history

The roots of the VU go back to the Christian-socially oriented People's Party (VP) founded in February 1918 . On January 5, 1936, this merged with the small, increasingly German-national and authoritarian Liechtenstein Homeland Service, which existed for only two years, to form today's Fatherland Union. Wilhelm Beck was the co-founder of the Christian Social People's Party . The party was the engine for fundamental political and social reforms in Liechtenstein in the early 20th century and saw itself as a workers' party that advocated more democratic people's rights, social security, solidarity in society and a strong, differentiated economy.

It has formulated its current objectives in the “values” adopted in May 2004, whereby it is committed to the principles of freedom, sustainability and solidarity.

In 1970–1974, 1978–1993, 1993–2001, VU had an absolute majority of the seats in the Landtag , the Liechtenstein parliament. After the state elections in 2005 , which brought it an all-time low in votes, the VU provided 10 of the 25 MPs and was represented in the five-member government by Deputy Prime Minister Klaus Tschütscher and Hugo Quaderer . The VU emerged from the state elections in 2009 as the clear winner and had an absolute majority in the state parliament with 13 seats for the 2009-2013 legislative period and appointed Klaus Tschütscher as the new head of government in the coalition government with the FBP. The Fatherland Union lost five seats in the state parliament in the 2013 state election and was then represented with eight seats and provided two of the four current government councilors. In the 2017 state election , the Fatherland Union was able to slightly increase its share of the vote by 0.2 percent, but it still has 8 out of 25 members of the state parliament. In the five-member government, the Fatherland Union continues to be represented by two government members.

VU state election results since 1945
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
45
49
53
53
57
58
62
66
70
74
78
82
86
89
93
93
97
01
05
09
13
17th

Party presidents

Term of office Surname annotation
1936-1965 Otto Schaedler
1965-1974 Franz Nägele
1974-1992 Otto Hasler
1992-2001 Oswald Kranz
2001-2005 Heinz Frommelt
2005-2011 Adolf Heeb
2011-2015 Jakob Büchel
from 2015 Günther Fritz

newspaper

The Liechtensteiner Vaterland newspaper , which in turn emerged from the Liechtensteiner Nachrichten and Liechtensteiner Heimatdienst newspapers in January 1936, is close to the Fatherland Union . The newspaper has changed from a “party-political battle paper” to a “modern forum newspaper”.

literature

  • Rupert Quaderer, Arthur Brunhart : The Castle Agreements of September 1920

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The parties - Liechtenstein
  2. ^ The founding meeting was chaired by the member of the state parliament, Basil Vogt from Balzers, in the Adler inn in Vaduz .
  3. ↑ Elected on November 13, 2015. Editor-in-chief of the party newspaper: Liechtensteiner Vaterland .
  4. ^ The Liechtensteiner Nachrichten (1924–1935) in turn emerged from the Oberrheinische Nachrichten (1914–1924) and both newspapers were already close to the Christian social movement / party.
  5. ↑ According to the editor-in-chief Günther Fritz of the Liechtensteiner Vaterland in the supplement: “Hundertjahrenews” from April 25, 2014.