Hans-Peter Martin's List

The list of Dr. Martin - For Democracy, control, justice ( list shortcuts Matin, MARTIN or HPM ) is an Austrian party. For the first time the former Mirror journalist and MEP Hans -Peter Martin joined the European elections in 2004 with its " list Dr. Hans -Peter Martin - For real control in Brussels" ( MARTIN ) on. The party won 13.98 % of the valid votes, and thus two of the 18 Austrian seats in the European Parliament. Also in the 2006 national elections, Martin appeared with the list of Dr. Martin. The list, however, it reached only 2.80% of the vote, which to her was denied to the National Council of the catchment.

In the European elections of 2009, the list in Austria reached 17.7% and was able to move in 3 of the 17 Austrian mandates to the European Parliament. Until April 2011, however, two of the three deputies came back from the list, while Martin lack of transparency accused.

Program

In the first place in the program list Dr. Martin is full transparency. The party considers comprehensive openness of information on state activities as indispensable for a functioning democratic state in the 21st century. Furthermore, the list of mandatory referendums and direct democracy begins. Thus the party wants a mandatory referendum on a legislative decision, if this demand 500,000 citizens. Exceptions to this are issues (eg, reintroduction of the death penalty or euthanasia ) contradict the fundamental human rights. Other program areas include anti-corruption, fuel-efficient economies, lowering the tax burden, the prevention of the EU accession of Turkey, neutrality, environment, health and human rights.

2006 national elections

On July 29, 2006 Hans -Peter Martin officially announced for the National Assembly elections on 1 October 2006 with its list Dr. Martin - for democracy, control, want to run justice. For this purpose, until 25 August 2006 at Austria's 8311 declarations of support were collected, so the hurdle of 2600 required for candidacy declarations of support was clearly exceeded.

Support from the Kronen Zeitung

Hans -Peter Martin had a powerful ally with the Kronen Zeitung. So could announce Hans -Peter Martin in a full-page column in the Kronen Zeitung that he would compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections with its citizens list.

Since the official announcement of candidacy, the crown came from the newspaper WAZ, the half owner, under fire. Dichand, publisher of the Kronen Zeitung, rejected the criticism of the handling of the "crown" in connection with the candidacy of Martin at the upcoming national elections. In an interview with the Austrian magazine profil Dichand said: " Martin was never supported by the Crown ' in the election campaign. " Dichand would have given accordingly Martin the " opportunity to report in detail about the difficulties find individual citizens here in Austria, if they want to run. " According Kronen-Zeitung editor Dichand could only interpret it as a dialing aid if Martin can occur as a candidate, that is in possession of 2600 signatures, and he continued in the " crown would write ".

Electioneering

There were problems in the election campaign with the ORF report, as well as the Burgenland top candidate Gabriele vladyka that still separated in the election campaign of Martin after political failings Wladykas were disseminated by the press. Hans -Peter Martin said that his candidacy was a one-time offer to the people of Austria, to bring more direct democracy in the Parliament, a failure he would not run at the national level.

The list Martin reached 2.80%. For a place in the National Council, the party should have received under § 107 NRWO a share of at least 4% of the vote. In an initial statement, Martin blamed for its failure to its low campaign budget and the ORF.

MEPs

  • Hans -Peter Martin, 1999 - Today (1999 on the list of the Social Democratic Party, 2004/2009 on the list Martin), Non-attached
  • Karin Resetarits, 2004 - 2009, from 8 June 2005, the ALDE Group joined, changed in the sequel to the LIF, the 2009 European elections support the JuLis
  • Angelika Werthmann, 2009 - 2014, resigned in July 2010 from the Martin- delegation, joined the ALDE Group, on 3 June 2012, replaces the 2014 European elections for the AAF
  • Martin Ehrenhauser, 2009 - 2014, Member, resigned in April 2011 from the Martin- delegation, for Europe has entered the European election of 2014 different
Hans-Peter Martin European Parliament election, 2004 Die Presse
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