Die Friesen

The Frisians are a German regional party. The party is committed to the interests of the national minority of the Frisians in Lower Saxony. The Frisians are recognized at the federal level as a minority party, are at the country level but not exempt from the five-percent hurdle. The party is trilingual aligned (high German, East Frisian Platt and Sater Frisian ) and performs pursuant to the statutes accordingly the name De Freesen and Do Fräisen.

Substantive Profile

The party occurs according to the website and newspaper reports and for self-determination with a directly elected regional parliament, better coastal protection in the context of climate change, regional economic and agricultural support, better rail links and preserve and promote the regional language ( through the introduction of Low German as a compulsory subject at school) and culture. Another focus of the policy of the Party The Frisians is the power supply. Whereby they decided rejects the planned construction of new coal-fired power plants. The party represents in all Frisian regions the continuation and innovation of wind and solar energy.

Their focus is according to information in the traditional settlement area of ​​the Frisians in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Structure

As the supreme organs of the Party, the General Assembly, the Federal Executive and Main Committee be called.

General Assembly

The General Assembly consists of all members of the party.

Federal Executive

History

The inaugural meeting with election of the Board was held on 11 July 2007. In the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2008, the party joined a country list and three direct candidates in the constituencies Empty (83) Empty / Borkum ( 84) and Aurich ( 86) on. Nationally, it reached 0.3 per cent of second votes. Your best result they achieved in the constituency Leer / Borkum 4.5 percent.

In a letter to the President of the Lower Saxony state parliament in December 2007, the party called for the exception to the five-percent hurdle because of their position as a minority representative. However, the Land Returning Officer denied the role of minority representation. After the state election, the Frisians designed so a verification complaint to the Lower Saxony State Court, which rejected this as manifestly unfounded, because the Lower Saxon Constitution does not provide for exceptions to the restrictive clause for minorities.

On 11 April 2008 the Party with the European Free Alliance (EFA ) was included as an observer member since April 12, 2009, she is a full member.

11 September 2011 The Frisians were for the first time in local elections in Lower Saxony, but not yet universally in their field of work. The party drew a with one candidate in the council vacancy, the Municipality Councils of Brookmerland and Hesel and in the council of Rhauderfehn.

2013 did not occur, the Frisians to state elections in Lower Saxony. The party has decided an election boycott.

Party chairman

Known members

The linguist Marron Fort Curtis was admitted as an honorary member for his services to the conservation of the Sater Frisian and Low German language.