2015 wake-up call

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Ulrike Trebesius (2014)

The wake-up call in 2015 was a part of a power and wing struggle in the Alternative for Germany , was established (AFD) club . The aim of the association was to maintain the AfD as a party that "objectively and constructively represents conservative as well as liberal and social values". The chairwoman of the association was Ulrike Trebesius .

On July 19, 2015, Bernd Lucke , Ulrike Trebesius, Bernd Kölmel and other wake-up call members founded the Alliance for Progress and Awakening (ALFA), which in November 2016, after a court ruling, was renamed Liberal-Conservative Reformers .

founding

The unregistered association was founded on May 18, 2015 on the initiative of Bernd Lucke . A prominent supporter and co-initiator was Hans-Olaf Henkel . The founding declaration was made by five of the seven AfD MEPs (Hans-Olaf Henkel, Bernd Kölmel , Bernd Lucke, Ulrike Trebesius and Joachim Starbatty ), five AfD members of the state parliament (three from Thuringia , one each from Hamburg and Bremen ) and other officials and former AfD officials. According to the association's statutes, the association was also open to non-AfD members. By June 2015, there were around 4,000 candidate countries from among the total of around 21,000 party members. Against the background of the disputes within the AfD and the subsequent course of the Essen party congress, the figures based solely on information from the association seemed at least dubious. In particular, the association rejected “ xenophobic , racist , nationalist , anti-Semitic , Islamophobic , Islamist , homophobic , right-wing or left-wing radical ” positions.

After Bernd Lucke's political defeat in the election for the AfD chairmanship at the Essen party congress and when the goals of the 2015 wake-up call could not be achieved there, the association's candidate countries were asked about founding a party. In the survey called Neustart 2015 , in which, according to the association, around 2,600 of the 4,000 candidate countries took part, almost 71 percent were in favor of founding a new party. Around 47 percent can also imagine financial support for the new party, and around 44 percent would like to work in the new party. After enough support to found a new party had been organized, the Alliance for Progress and Awakening (ALFA, later LKR) was founded on July 19, 2015 in Kassel . Bernd Lucke became chairman and Ulrike Trebesius became the party's first general secretary.

Development and reception

A single judge of the AfD Federal Arbitration Court ruled on June 23, 2015 that the association must be dissolved immediately by the AfD's federal board. The association makes directional decisions that are reserved for a federal party congress alone. While Lucke criticized the verdict as “legally untenable”, Frauke Petry welcomed the decision and declared that “as many seduced wake-up call members as possible must be reintegrated into the party”. The "wake-up call party association" is "an attempt by a minority to destroy internal party democracy." The chairwoman Ulrike Trebesius stated that contrary to the assumption of the arbitral tribunal, it was not an association exclusively for AfD members, but an independent association, which could not be dissolved by the federal board of the AfD.

At the request of the federal board, the federal arbitration court ruled on June 25, 2015 that the association was not contrary to the statutes. According to Luckes, the federal board subsequently decided that AfD members were free to join the association. In July 2015, the newly elected AfD federal board decided at the beginning of July that membership of a wake-up call was incompatible with membership of the AfD. This does not apply to former supporters of the wake-up call.

The association was understood and criticized by parts of the party as a call to quit the party and subsequently re-founding by the initiator and AfD party chairman Bernd Lucke in the event of a defeat by the competitor for the position of the first speaker of the AfD, Frauke Petry. The political scientist Hajo Funke took the view that the association was “the beginning of the end of the party”. With the departure of the protagonists from the AfD and the subsequent founding of the ALFA party, the purpose of the association was outdated.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bernd-lucke.de: Weckruf 2015 ( Memento from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Jump to the right of the AfD: Lucke-wing prefers poll on party formation , Spiegel Online, July 7, 2015
  3. ↑ a b New Party? Luckes supporters say yes. Tagesschau.de , July 9, 2015, archived from the original on July 11, 2015 ; Retrieved July 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Setback for AfD boss: Luckes “Weckruf 2015” is dissolved In: faz.net of 23 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Out for Luckes association "Weckruf 2015" In: welt.de of June 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ AfD boss Lucke has to put the wake-up call to sleep In: zeit.de of June 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Judgment of the court of arbitration: AfD boss Lucke has to resolve his "wake-up call" In: spiegel.de of June 23, 2015.
  8. ↑ Lucke does not want to dissolve the “Weckruf” association. In faz.net from June 23, 2015.
  9. ^ "Wake-up call 2015": Luckes initiative saved shortly before the party conference , Handelsblatt, June 25, 2015
  10. ↑ Dealing with Alfa: Ex-Lucke supporters in AfD are still welcome , Handelsblatt, July 27, 2015
  11. ↑ Power struggle in the AfD: "You put yourself in a way that is unbearable" In: sueddeutsche.de of June 24, 2015.
  12. ^ AfD power struggle: Luckes "wake-up call" annoys opponent Petry In: welt.de from May 19, 2015.