Lusatian Alliance

The Lusatian Alliance ( Upper Sorbian Łužiska Alianca, Lower Łužyska Alianca ) is active in the Lausitz minority and regional party. It is a new-old party and its goal is to represent the interests of low-and Oberlausitzer population, and the Sorbian or Wendish ethnic group at parliamentary level. The party was ( Wendish People's Party SLS ) established on 26 March 2005 in Cottbus as Serbska Ludowa Strona. On their III. Congress on April 26, 2010 in Cottbus, it was renamed Lusatian Alliance.

  • 3.1 relative to Domowina
  • 4.1 Bundestag elections
  • 4.2 state elections
  • 4.3 local elections
  • 5.1 1919-1933
  • 5.2 establishment attempt in 1946
  • 5.3 Start-up 2005

Substantive Profile

The current policy statement was adopted on 1 June 2005 in Hoyerswerda. The party stressed that they wanted neither left nor right situate. She wants to be effective both as ideologically open collection movement of the Sorbs / Wends, as well as an independent Regional Political Association of Lausitz. So seek the Lusatian alliance basically a decentralized, close to the citizen politics. The one with the III. Congress April 26, 2010 begonnende reform process, which includes the change of name, or significant changes in the statute, is to be continued with the fundamental revision of Principle program.

Minority policy

The Lusatian Alliance advocates for the inclusion of a minority article according to the European Convention on the protection of minorities in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. She wants that existing legislation should be designed to protect minorities binding. The Lusatian Alliance seeks to provide a bid for a nationwide bilingual education from kindergarten through to vocational training for the entire Lausitz. The party occurs after a liberal understanding for a strong autonomy of schools. It supports the development of a broad-based professional Lausitz University in Cottbus where also the Sorbian Institute is to be attached. The Sorbian ( Wendish ) language is to get in the Sorbian settlement area of ​​the same rank or status in speaking and writing, as the German language. This is also all institutions, both public and private character, which operate responsible for the Sorbian settlement area or in this concern.

Administrative reorganization of Upper and Lower Lusatia

The Lusatian Alliance is committed to the strengthening of federalism. The rights of countries (including own fiscal sovereignty and the sovereignty of the countries education ) were strengthened to reach an informed regional decision-making in politics. Another major focus is the local politics, the Lusatian Alliance calls for a strengthening of municipalities and counties. So they sought the formation of regional upper and Lower Lusatia in their historically grown limits, with their own parliaments modeled after the Stuttgart region. A merger of the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg will be rejected.

Economy

The Lusatian alliance wants the mining of brown coal in the form of open-cast mines in the Lower and Upper Lusatia is being phased out. The Neuaufschluß further opencast mines is absolutely rejected. The generation of electricity is carried out by decentralized renewable plants. The policy, in particular the spatial or regional planning should be aligned to the fact that the economy operates sustainably and Ressoursen gently. The spatial or regional planning should consider the low and Lusatia as a single economic space.

Organizational structure

Organs of the Party are the Congress, the General Board and the Convention. The Congress, as the General Assembly, the supreme decision-making body, which meets every two years, usually. The General Executive Board is elected by the Congress every two years and is responsible for the administration of the party. The Convention consists of set members and is responsible for the creation and development of the program. He also develops the policies of the party.

The Lusatian Alliance is divided into a total of two regional associations: There are the regional associations Upper Lusatia and Lower Lusatia. Further breakdowns are groupings of communities.

Political activity

It participates in the launched on 8 October 2007 in Brandenburg popular initiative " No new opencast mines - for a sustainable energy policy ", which has reached the required minimum number of 20,000 signatures of support on 15 January 2008. This opened up the possibility to carry out a referendum, which began on 10 October 2008 and ended on 9 February 2009. After the final result, 25,633 people from Brandenburg took part in the referendum. Valid were 24,501 entries. For the success of the referendum but 80,000 votes were required.

Beginning of 2013 launched the Alliance Lusatian a campaign to amend the German mining law.

On 27 March 2009, the Wendish People's Party in the European Free Alliance (EFA ) was included as an observer member. The EFA is a European political party whose members are regional and minority parties.

Relation to Domowina

From its foundation until after the parliamentary elections in the autumn of 2005 there was the part of the umbrella organization of the Sorbs in Germany, the Domowina, a distant relationship to the SLS. Then began between the two organizations, a cautious approach, so that there was a first meeting in Hoyerswerda on 28 September 2005.

Bundestag elections

The Federal Election Commission has rejected the approval of the Wendish People's Party to earlier held on 18 September 2005 federal election for technical reasons. At the parliamentary elections on 27 September 2009, the party has decided not to compete.

State elections

The party has decided not to run for the parliamentary elections on 27 September 2009 in Brandenburg, and on August 30, 2009 in Saxony. For collection with at least one seat in the Brandenburg state parliament more than 7,900 votes would have been necessary with 1.39 million votes cast.

Local elections

At the local elections in Brandenburg on 28 September 2008, the party came round in the district of Spree- Neisse on the nomination of the Citizens' Initiative Klinger as " citizens of the Lausitz - Klinger round » at. The Klinger round reached here two mandates for the district council in the Spree -Neisse district. In some municipalities in the same county, the party involved with some candidates in the municipal elections.

History

1919-1933

The founders of the Wendish People's Party invoke the tradition of a same political group, which was founded on November 2, 1919 as " Lusatian People's Party " in 1924 and renamed " Wendish People's Party ". She sat down to the objectives of the Wendish / Sorbian national movement. At the meeting of committee members and stewards of the Wendish National Committee on 6 December 1919, the party was entrusted with the representation of political demands for national equality, while adopted by the National Committee of the economic and cultural concerns. Chaired this committee had Arnost Beard Brězynčanski (1870-1956) held, which was also the main force behind the establishment of the Wendish People's Party. The party turned to the Wendish / Sorbian and German population of Lusatia. In her program she developed proposals for a peaceful coexistence of the two populations and suggestions for the legislation on equality of the Wendish / Sorbian language and culture.

The political committee of the Cyril - Methodius Association distanced itself very soon from the Lusatian people's party program because it was too far-reaching to him, and said in April 1920 that it was impossible for him to go beyond the platform of the Christian People's Party, and recommended as already the imperial period, the choice of the German Center Party. The Wendish People's Party was formed together with the Domowina and Maćica Serbska 1925 Wendish People's Council. Also founded in the 1924 Federation of National Minorities in Germany the Wends / Sorbs were working on behalf of Jan scale. The chairman of the Wendish People's Party was Jakub Lorenc - Zaleski ( 1874-1939 ). They won a few local mandates. In 1933, she was banned by the Nazis.

Establishment attempt in 1946

Already in the founding of Domowina Regional Association Lower Lausitz on September 8, 1946 in Advertise a resolution was adopted, in which at point 3, the establishment of a Wendish ( Sorbian ) party was required. This decision could not be implemented due to the prevailing political conditions in the Soviet occupation zone and then in the GDR (from October 7, 1949 ). This attempt to bring in the immediate post-war period a fresh start into existence, was denied by the communist claim to power.

Start-up 2005

The idea of ​​founding a party arose in 2001, but it required public attention to the Südschleswiger Wählerverband in the election of the Prime Minister of Schleswig -Holstein in 2005 to finally put the idea into action, even if it is emphasized by individual members, you did not want to swim in the wake of the events. The founding congress was held in Cottbus on 26 March 2005.

Similar to the Südschleswiger Voters' Association, the party of the Danish and Frisian ethnic group in Schleswig -Holstein, would be exempted under a special regime of the five-percent hurdle the Lusatian Alliance. Although this provides the Brandenburg, but not the Saxon electoral law. Main argument of the founding was that the democratic system is based in Germany on the participation of parties and thus the Domowina than previous advocate of the Sorbs could not do justice to her role at the political level.

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