Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Civic Democratic Party Switzerland (BDP Switzerland ), French bourgeois Parti démocratique Suisse ( PBD ), Italian Partito borghese democratico Svizzera (PBD ), Romansh: Partida burgais democratica Romansch (PBD ) is a political party in Switzerland, at the national level was established on 1 November 2008 in Glarus library as a spin-off of the Swiss People 's Party ( SVP).
History
The SVP understood upon its foundation in 1971 as a civic center party. Under the spiritual leadership of Christoph Blocher pursued since the 1990s, a much more right -oriented policies. This resulted in particular in the cantons of Bern, Glarus and Graubünden to grave fighting, because the local SVP, emerged from the Democratic Party or the farmers, commercial and civil party, traditionally more moderate was bourgeois -oriented.
A bust-up occurred when the girl from Graubünden Eveline Widmer -Schlumpf vote in the Federal elections in 2007 against the wishes of SVP Group instead of the previous Blocher in the state government left and the former SVP Grisons refused Widmer -Schlumpf therefore excluded from the party. As the SVP Switzerland was able to exclude any individual members of cantonal parties according to statutes, they decided to exclude the entire SVP Grisons. This named thereupon to Civic Party in Switzerland, later in Civic Democratic Party.
In the SVP Bern, whose former Federal Councillor Samuel Schmid no more than their Federal Council was considered by the SVP Switzerland also, also the spin-off was discussed and implemented with the establishment of the BDP Bern into action. In the canton of Glarus SVP exponent split off from the party and formed the BDP Glarus. Thereupon, the BDP Switzerland was founded on November 1, 2008 in Glarus. Meanwhile, other cantonal parties were founded, however, can not be regarded as a splinter of the SVP. Most members of these sections were before they joined no party, isolated, there are former politicians for various bourgeois parties.
The Swiss Parliament elections in 2011 for the first time, the BDP took up to national elections. She received 5.4% of the vote and 9 seats in the National Council. Their only of States, the Berne Werner Luginbuhl, was re-elected on the second ballot.
As the first party president Hans Grunder was elected at the inaugural meeting of the BDP Switzerland on 1 November 2008. May 5, 2012 it took over from Martin Landolt.
Cantonal parties
The BDP is divided with at January 16, 2012 in cantonal parties. The BDP Obwalden arbitrarily founded, however, is no cantonal party, the BDP.
BDP Grisons
The BDP Graubünden has its origins in the Grisons Democratic Party, founded in 1919. In 1971, the overall Swiss merger of the Democratic Party with the farmers, commercial and civil party to the Swiss People's Party and thus renamed SVP Grisons. Since the exclusion from the SVP she now calls itself BDP Grisons. The BDP Grisons include ( since the elections of 3 June 2010 ) at two government councils and 25 ( out of 120 selected in Majorzverfahren ) Gross councils. In the national elections of 2011, the Grisons BDP was the second largest with 20.5% of votes a party to the canton. National Hansjörg Hassler was re-elected. In the districts Inn ( Lower Engadine, Val Müstair ) and Hinterrhein the BDP thereby achieved, each with over 30% of their best results.
BDP Bern
As part of ongoing battles among factions of the Swiss People's Party ( SVP), the possibility of a spin-off of the liberal forces was planned in 2000 for the first time.
After the exclusion of the Grisons SVP demanded exponent of the SVP Bern, who together formed the "Group Bubenberg ," the emergence of the SVP from SVP Bern Switzerland, found with this requirement but not a majority. Therefore, they established on 21 June 2008, the Civic Democratic Party Canton Bern ( Bern shortly BDP ). The founding members included, among other National Councillor Ursula Haller, Councillor Werner Luginbuhl, Councillor Urs Gasche and 17 members of the Berne Grand Council. Several local sections of the Berne SVP were closed over the BDP. Through the party crossing his local party SVP at Ruti Buren for BDP also the former Federal Councillor Samuel Schmid joined the new party.
In municipal elections in the following elections, the BDP was able to hold quite well. In the city council election (legislature ) in Bern on November 30, 2008 just months after its inception, the BDP reached 7.8% of the vote and six seats right away faction strength. In communities like Burgdorf, Köniz, Lyss and Langnau im Emmental, where partially active SVP politicians were converted to the new party, the BDP won in the municipal elections in 2008 and 2009, between 15% and 20 % of the vote.
At the cantonal elections on 28 March 2010, the cantonal party President Beatrice Simon was elected to the government of the canton of Bern. She could thus defend the seat of retiring Urs Gasche. In Councillor Simon took over the previously held previous history of Gasche Finance Office. In the Grand Council elections, the BDP Bern scored a 16.0% share of the vote and continued to expand its parliamentary representation to 25 seats. Did especially well in the BDP Zealand from comparatively weak, however, in the Bernese Oberland, clearly the weakest in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.
In the national elections of 2011, the BDP reached 14.9 % of the vote and four of 26 Bernese National Council seats. Were elected the former ( elected in 2007 for SVP) Ursula Haller and Hans Grunder and newly Urs Gasche and Lorenz Hess. The regional distribution of votes remained similar to the cantonal elections in the previous year. The only exception was the Bernese Oberland, where the BDP new sections above average, while it remained under the share of the vote of the Grand Conseil election otherwise.
BDP Glarus
With the political style of the SVP and its actions against the SVP Grisons dissatisfied SVP members founded together with former SVP members on 28 August 2008 in Ennenda the BDP Glarus, after the Liberal Group already formed on June 5 in the District. Among them was the only SVP Councillor Robert Marti, SVP Vice President Martin Landolt, the SVP faction leader in the District Ernst Disch and seven other SVP parliamentarian of the liberal tradition of the former Democratic Party committed wing of the party.
The first president of the BDP Glarus is Martin Landolt. He was elected in a by-election on 8 February 2009 in the National Council, which the BDP, the fraction intensity reached in the federal parliament and was able to start their own faction.
In the district elections of 30 May 2010, the Glarus BDP reached 16.6 % of the vote and 10 seats district.
BDP Aargau
The BDP Aargau was established on 21 November 2008. In the parliamentary elections on March 8, 2009, four seats to win (of 140 ) was achieved. The elected BDP- large councilors joined the CVP Group. In the 2012 elections the BDP Aargau reached 4.4%, which corresponds to six seats and thus faction strength.
Other cantons
Since the fall of 2008, the BDP - sections were established ( in the cantons of Thurgau, Aargau, Schwyz, St. Gallen, Zurich, Solothurn, Basel-Country, Lucerne and Basel-Stadt ) in all the major German -speaking cantons. In the cantons of Valais and Fribourg also bilingual (French / German ) was founded in sections, in the Vaud and Neuchâtel purely French-speaking.
Most members of these parties were previously politically inactive, isolated they were engaged in FDP or SVP. The most prominent members of these smaller sections are the former Zurich SVP National Councillor Lisbeth Fehr and Dübendorfer Mayor Lothar Ziörjen (1980-1999 SVP).
Outside of the three founding cantons of the BDP stood before the national elections in the cantons of Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Zurich and Lucerne. In the elections in the district of the canton of Basel-Land of 27 March 2011, the BDP won 4 (of 90) seats. On 3 April 2011, the BDP reached in the elections in the canton of Zurich 3.5 percent of the vote and 6 (of 180) seats and thus faction strength. In the canton of Lucerne, however, the BDP reached only 1.6% of the vote and failed to reach the cantonal parliament clear.
In the national elections of 23 October 2011, the BDP occurred in all cantons where there were sections. In the new cantons she cut mainly in the Central Plateau from good. About 5 % of the votes she reached in the cantons of Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Thurgau and Zurich. In Aargau it reached a seat National Council, in the canton of Zurich even two. In French-speaking Switzerland, the BDP -section, however, from very weak, she reached in any single French-speaking district (except the Bernese Jura) only 2% of the vote.
After the federal elections, the BDP was in the cantonal parliaments of Freiburg, St. Gallen. Solothurnsdes Thurgau move. In the Fribourg Cantonal Parliament elections of 13 November 2011, the BDP won one seat each in the two German-speaking districts Sense and lake. Also two seats ( out of 120 ) won the BDP on March 11 at the elections in St. Gallen cantonal parliament. In the canton of Thurgau, the BDP won five seats on April 15, 2012. In the elections in the French-speaking cantons of Vaud (11 March 2012), Neuchâtel ( April 28, 2013) and Geneva ( October 6, 2013), however, could not win a single seat, the BDP.
Name
Originally Civic Party Switzerland (BPS ) was provided as a name for the new party; he was after protests of the existing civil party in Switzerland, a small party right, changed because they feared losing the abbreviation BPS.
Since there might be offing a lawsuit because of the name Civic Party, the Grisons from the beginning chose off the name Civic Democratic Party.