BDP Graubünden

September 22, 1971 as SVP section June 16, 2008 as BPS Grisons (early July renaming )

The Civic Democratic Party (BDP ) of Grisons (Italian Partito dei Grigioni borghese democratico (PBD ), Romansh: Partida burgais democratica dal Grischun (PBD ) ) is a political party in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

From 1971 to June 2008 she made under the name Swiss People's Party Grisons, a section of the Swiss People 's Party ( SVP). On 16 June 2008 its delegates approved the renaming of the party in BPS Grisons. Since early July, the party used the name BDP Grisons. Since the founding of the Civic Democratic Party Switzerland it is one whose sections.

History

1919-1971: Democratic Party

After the Democrats had been established since the 1860s in eastern Switzerland different cantonal parties, a similar grouping was born in Graubünden in the context of the first in the proportional representation method conducted national elections of 1919. A group of " young free Inniger ", ie reform-oriented members of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) came with its own list to this choice. As a result, the Young Liberals split off and formed the Democratic Party Biinden. Press organ was the "New Grisons newspaper". 1920 was chosen with Christian Michel for the first time a Democrat in the Grisons cantonal government, and in 1925 won a first Andreas Gadient National seat.

In the 1930s and 40s, the Democrats played an important role in Graubunden policy. In 1935, Albert Lardelli the first election of a Graubünden Democrats in the Senate. In 1937, the Democrats with 34 representatives stärktste party in the Grand Council. Attempts in the 1930s to unite the Democratic Party to the Liberals to a "Protestant party" failed.

In 1971 the Grisons Democrats with the Glarus Democrats and the operators present in the cantons of Aargau, Basel- Country, Bern, Fribourg, Schaffhausen, Ticino, Thurgau, Vaud and Zurich farmers, commercial and civil party (BGB ) for the Swiss People's Party (SVP ) together.

National councils of the Democratic Party Grisons

(*) March resigned in 1942, replaced by Georg speaker

Councillors of the Democratic Party Grisons

(*) 1970/71 Council President

1971-2008: section of the SVP Switzerland

From 1971 to 2008, the party formed a cantonal section of the SVP Switzerland. During this time, a member of the SVP Grisons was twice elected to the Federal Council:

  • Leon Schlumpf, Federal Councillor 1980-1987, and
  • Eveline Widmer -Schlumpf, the daughter of Leon Schlumpf, Federal Councillor since 1 January 2008.

2008: exclusion from the SVP Switzerland

In the general elections of the Swiss government on 12 December 2007, the former SVP Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher has not been confirmed and Eveline Widmer -Schlumpf (SVP / GM, and today BDP) replaced. The possibility of a non- re-election of Blocher had already been discussed in detail during the election campaign. The SVP accused the center- left parties and a secret conspiracy to achieve this goal and announced in the event of such an election result to go into the "opposition"; not take a nominated member of the party to an election, it will not be a member of SVP Group. As a result, Widmer -Schlumpf was excluded from the meetings of SVP Group, and three months later a utter expulsion from the party was decided. Because a single person according to statutes can only be excluded by the cantonal section but, the SVP Switzerland, the board asked the girl from Graubünden 4 April 2008 on the immediate resignation of Federal and party. If they refuse, the cantonal party SVP Grisons had they expelled from their ranks. In the event that this should defy the instructions of Bern likewise, you (ie the total SVP Grisons ) were threatened with exclusion from the national parent party. Since none of these demands was met, the central board initiated on May 17, an expulsion proceedings against the SVP Grisons and precipitated on 1 June 2008 the formal exclusion decision, which according to the party statutes a 30-day appeal period began to run.

BDP Grisons

Behind the scenes probed the Grisons by opportunities for joint action with dissidents from other cantons, with substantiated the idea of ​​a new all-Swiss, moderately conservative bourgeois party. On June 16, 2008 Assembly of Delegates of the SVP decided Graubünden in Landquart to cancel the membership of the SVP Switzerland from the party statutes, the party name in Civic Party Switzerland (BPS ) to change the Grisons and to waive an appeal against the exclusion decision. Senate Christoffel Brändli criticized the team run by interim president Bleiker have his efforts biased towards the formation of a new party and tries to prevent the exclusion from the SVP Switzerland too little consistently. Brändli announced initially, continue to politicize without a party. In early August 2008, he decided to give up but the re-established SVP join Grisons.

On 19 June 2008, a new line of national SVP obligated party was founded with the name SVP Grisons in St. Moritz. Some local and county parties, the BDP (the " old" SVP) take a transfer to this grouping in the eye, or have already decided it.

Early July 2008, the party changed the name of BPS on BDP analogous to the BDP Bern and to possible legal disputes with the smallest grouping Citizens Party Switzerland to avoid.

Current Program

The most important program priorities called the designated party president Marcus Hasler at the delegates' meeting of 16 June 2008:

  • Livelihood security in the border regions
  • Largely independent power
  • Public safety
  • Sustainable fiscal policy
  • Sustainable environmental policy

Current elected officials (as of 2012)

Bundesrat:

  • Eveline Widmer -Schlumpf

House of Representatives:

  • Hansjörg Hassler

Government of the Canton Grisons:

  • Barbara Steiner Janom
  • Hansjörg Trachsel

Grand Council of the Canton of Grisons:

  • 27 deputies ( out of 120)
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