Schleswig Party
The Schleswigsche Party ( SP) (Danish Slesvigsk Parti ) is the political representation of the German minority in North Schleswig.
The Schleswigsche party takes a regional party in Northern Schleswig. It is committed to the promotion of the German ethnic group as well as for strengthening the region Schleswig / South Jutland. Another focus is the stepping up of cross -border and European cooperation. Officially the party is to be classified on any left-right scale; but they could be called bourgeois social liberal. At the core voters are farmers and small business owners.
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Local Politics
Local Elections 2009
After the entry into force of municipal reform from 1 January 2007 Northern Schleswig is divided into only four major municipalities. Larger municipal units complicate electoral successes of the SP. In the elections that took place on November 17, 2009 in Aabenraa 2,093 votes scored the SP ( 6.9% ) (2005: 2,002 ) and two mandates. In Tønder the SP scored 1,029 votes (5.0 %) ( 2005: 978 ) and two mandates in Sonderborg 1,526 (3.8% ) (2005: 874 votes) and a mandate. In Hadersleben the SP scored 623 votes (2.1% ) (2005: 443) and also a mandate.
The SP did not participate in the election of regional representation of the new Region of Southern Denmark. Your potential voters currently seems to be insufficient for a seat in the Region: The region is adjacent to North Schleswig yet from the former offices Ribe, Vejle and Funen. In contrast to the 2007 resolution offices covered only non- minority-related areas such as health, transport and environmental planning in the competence of the regions.
By 2009
In the election to the council of the Office Jutland ( South Jutland Amtsråd ) 2001, the party scored 4,417 votes and a mandate.
In the election period 2001-2005, the SP was present in five of the 23 municipalities of Southern Jutland: Tinglev ( Tingleff ), Tønder ( Tønder ), Højer ( Hojer ), Aabenraa ( Aabenraa ) and Løgumkloster ( Løgumkloster ).
In Sønderborg 2005, the mandate was backed up by a list associated with the social-liberal Radical Venstre and the Centrum- Demokraterne. The SP- MP Stephan Kleinschmidt was elected chairman of the Culture Committee later what some attracted attention, since no Member of the German minority held such an office.
In Hadersleben the SP scored 2005 443 votes (1.4%), which was enough to no regular mandate. However, the party because of minority suffrage an extraordinary mandate achieved at that time allotted. Such extra mandate shall be granted if the representation of the German minority receives at least a quarter of the number of votes of the last allocated ( by the d' Hondt method ) Normal mandate. The Extra mandate is officially 'attached Member " ( tilforordnet medlem ). It has no voting rights, but enjoys full speaking rights and is entitled to the usual allowance. It also receives a seat on a committee, at its option. For comparison Det Radical Venstre was not represented in the local council Haderslebener 502 votes ( 1.6%).
Parliament
From 1920 to 1943 and again from 1953 to 1964 the party was represented by an MP in the Danish Parliament the Folketing.
In the general election following results were obtained:
From 1971, the party did not occur at the general election. 1973-1979, however, you could a deputy (Isaiah Schmidt) send to the Folketing, who was elected on the list of party Centrum- Demokraterne. This collaboration ended, a new candidate rejected as Centrum- Demokraterne because of his past in the Waffen-SS.
Status as the representative of the German minority
Since the voting power of the SP was no longer sufficient for representation in the Folketing from the 1960s, 1965, the Contact Committee on the German minority was built in the Folketing. Since 1983 there is also a government sponsored Secretariat of the German minority in Copenhagen.
To allow the counterpart of SP in South Schleswig, the SSW, the entry into the state parliament of Schleswig -Holstein, the SSW was excluded after the negotiation of the Bonn- Copenhagen Declarations in state elections of the five-percent hurdle. For a seat in the Kieler Landtag SSW about 25,000 votes must unite to today. The SP can not be formally excluded in the same way by the two-percent electoral threshold in the Folketing elections. On such a special system could be dispensed with, because the Danish electoral system between constituency mandates and ( nationwide ) Supplementary different mandates. The restrictive clause applies only to the grant of the latter; they represented about 70,000 votes in the 2011 election. However, Northern Schleswig is united in its own constituency. In order to achieve a district mandate here, only about 12,000 votes would be needed. This would correspond to a voting share of 8 percent in North Schleswig and 0.35 % nationally.
To be allowed to compete in a general election, a party not represented in parliament must submit as many support Enser clarification of eligible voters as average needed for a list would mandate (currently around 20,000 ). From this scheme, the Schleswigsche party is exempt.
See also minority suffrage
History
After the return of North Schleswig to Denmark Schleswigsche voters Association was founded in the summer of 1920. As president was elected Pastor John Schmidt Wodder. On August 18, 1920, the policy statement was published. The main demands were a new frontier revision and self- administration of the German part of the population in churches, schools and " all racial affairs."
At the first general election following the referendum on 21 September 1920, the voters took club under the name Schleswigsche party participate in the election and achieved a mandate.
In 1935, the organization of the German minority has been brought into line by the Nazis. The SP was as NSDAP Nordschleswig a foreign branch of the NSDAP. In the general election in 1939, she wore for electoral considerations continue the designation Schleswigsche party, but the party apparatus was identical to 1945 with the NSDAP -N.
After the Second World War and the end of the German occupation, the SP was reorganized. They openly stated their recognition of the boundary line and their loyalty to the Danish state.