Community of voters for Wuppertal
The Voting Community for Wuppertal , WfW for short , is a German community of voters operating at the municipal level in the city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Description and objectives
As is generally the case, the voter community for Wuppertal is organized as an association. It is generally bourgeois oriented and the idea is based on most of the independent voter communities . Citizens have come together here who are dissatisfied with the politics of the established parties previously represented in the city council and want to set new accents with the help of the electoral community.
The focus here is on better public participation and transparency in political work as well as improving future opportunities for Wuppertal by consolidating finances, promoting the economy and education, protecting the environment and preventing major projects that are unnecessary in the WfW's view. For example, the WfW was critical of the renovation of the Döppersberg , since the funds to be raised by the city of Wuppertal in the millions would be missing elsewhere.
history
founding
The founding declaration dates from May 25, 2004. Klaus Goebel , who was previously a member of the city council for the CDU from 1975–1989, and Günter Schiller, who took over the chairmanship of the association until February 2005, were involved in the founding . He was followed by Reimar Kroll (until March 2010), Heribert Stenzel (until March 2012) and Axel Straub (from March 2012).
elections
The WfW first stood in 2004 in the municipal elections to the city council in Wuppertal and achieved 6.9 percent of the valid votes cast. The electoral community initially provided five city councilors, one of whom, however, left the association and the parliamentary group during the current legislative period . In addition, the WfW was represented in most of the district representations. In the course of the five-year election period, a total of five district representatives left the WfW.
In the local elections in 2009 Ralf Streuf ran for mayor's office. He was able to unite 2.32 percent of the vote. The electoral community achieved 3.8 percent (−3.1 percent) of the vote in the election for the city council. It lost two seats compared to the 2004 election, but retained parliamentary group status. Heribert Stenzel has been the parliamentary group leader since September 2011 (until April 2015).
In the 2014 local elections, the WfW was able to improve its election result to 4.69% and moved into the Wuppertal City Council with three mandates.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Articles of Association
- ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung of August 5, 2009
- ↑ Founding declaration
- ↑ Klaus Goebel ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. barmen2009.de, accessed November 2009
- ↑ Gerhard Hirsch turns his back on WfW Westdeutsche Zeitung of June 3, 2008
- ↑ Andreas Lukesch: Eight candidates want to go to the town hall. Westdeutsche Zeitung , July 13, 2009, accessed on March 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Wahlen.wuppertal.de
- ↑ Council information system of the city of Wuppertal ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ WfW: Association and parliamentary group quarreled Westdeutsche Zeitung of April 16, 2015; accessed on February 27, 2020
- ↑ Council elections - European elections / local elections / election of the integration council 2014 in the city of Wuppertal - overall result. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
