Alsace d'abord
Alsace d' abord German ( " Alsace First") is a regionalist party in the political spectrum of rights in Alsace.
History
In 1989, Robert the player Alsace d' abord and became its party chairman. Until this year, he was a party member of the French Front National (FN) have been, which he left because of those anti-European positions.
The party won the elections in 1992 approximately 6% and 2 seats and 1998 respectively, 5.9% and 9 seats. 2004 reached Alsace d' abord her best result to date with 9.42% of the vote, but did not because of the new election procedure in the second round, which will be accessible only parties with more than 10%.
Alsace d' abord maintains contacts with parties like the Vlaams Belang in Belgium and the Italian Lega Nord.
With their advertising campaigns, the party got over and over again in the headlines. In an election poster a gagged woman was, for example, displayed in Alsatian costume.
By 2008, Robert was a player chairman of the party, which he then left to set up the new Nouvelle Droite populaire collective movement. His successor was the co-founder Jacques Cordonnier, who announced to the approaching " basic and regionalist values of the party." Since then, the party of identitarian movement approached and became their convention in Orange in November 2009 identitaire member of the Bloc.
Party program
The program of the party is rather bourgeois- conservative, but is assigned to the right-wing populism or right-wing because of its sharp tones in the areas of security and immigration. It emphasizes the value of the identity that is different, national and European defined not only as a national but three times as regional ( Alsatian ) on FN. Alsace d' abord explains this in its Charter as follows:
" Alsatian by birth or recording, we declare our solidarity with the Alsatian, French and European identity of our region. This identity is based on our dual culture, French and Alemannic. Our identity is our by cultural standardization, forgetting our roots and the perversion values threatened. It is also threatened by the non-European immigration. "
« Alsaciens d' origine ou d'adoption, affirmons nous notre attachement à l' identité alsacienne, française et européenne de notre région. "::" Cette identité se fonde sur notre double culture, française et alémanique. Notre identité est menacée par l' uniformisation culturelle, l' oubli de nos racines et la perversion de nos valeurs. Elle est aussi menacée par l'immigration non européenne. »
This should be promoted among others, the promotion of bilingualism ( French and German ) and a financial and fiscal autonomy of Alsace again and against the threat of non-European immigration and the spread of Islam ( " Islamization " ), in particular of radical Islamism, defended. Due to the history of Alsace, the party platform supports an increase in European Union, but excluding Turkey.
Election results in the Alsace regional elections
Note: the restrictive clause in regional elections of 5 was raised to 10% by electoral reform in 2003.
Since 2009, Alsace d' abord has no elected officials at the local level more.
Important party members
The deputies in the Regional Council (1998-2004) were:
- Robert Player, President of Alsace d' abord
- Jacques Cordonnier, Secretary General of Alsace d' abord
- Stéphane Bourhis, spokesman of Alsace d' abord, City Council HOENHEIM (Bas -Rhin)
- Chaton Christian, Councillor of Sainte -Marie- aux- Mines ( Markirch )
- René weeß
- Denis Kipfer, Deputy Mayor of Rammersmatt
- Théo Klein, member of the Group of Alsace d' abord the Regional Council of Alsace
- Jean -Marie Schneider, City Council Cernay ( Mountain Home )
- Alain Voelckel, City Council Bischwiller ( Bischweiler ) General ( cr ), Commander of the Legion of Honor
Other key members are:
- Anne Kling, former member of the Euro Europe, President of the organization "Women for Strasbourg " ( " Femmes pour Strasbourg " ), President of the Association " We are defending our identity " ( " Défendons notre identité " )
- Catherine Wacker man, functionary of the association
- Fabrice Lauffenburger, chairman of the youth organization "Alsace d' abord Jeunes "
- ( Alsacienne Solidarité ) Chantal player of " Alsace solidarity "
- Alexandre Messerlin, City Council and Mayor of Elbach ( Ellbach )
- Albert Schmitter, mayor of Schirrhoffen ( Schürhofen )