Party for Labour, Environment and Family
The OPEN - Party for Labour, Environment and Family - Christians for Germany (Brief description: OPEN) is a German small party, founded in 2008, which sees itself as Christian. She is a member of the European Christian Political Movement ( ECPM ). The UP wanted to unite with the Party Spreader Bible Christians (PBC), originally in the fall of 2013. The merged party should bear the name of alliance C. In November 2013, the proposed merger has been postponed until further notice.
Substantive Profile
Content has to be designated as the Christian party programmatic as well staffed primarily a social, economic and political profile on: in particular basic values of the social market economy, such as ownership, commitment, decentralized and entrepreneurial creativity are to be strengthened. The party also promotes more "flexibility" in the " normal labor " such as protection against dismissal or collective conditions. She calls for a more attractive design for start-ups and a basic income by a combined wage model.
She also advocates a child-raising salary with pension, to assimilate non-working parents with workers financially. By reducing non-wage labor costs should also be made to create jobs for employer incentives. Start-ups should be encouraged and facilitated.
UP states in its political orientation, the standards " Judeo- Christian ethics ", since their absence both contribute to the loss of social responsibility and economic responsibility as well as a " threat to the natural environment and ecological balance ... by reckless exploitation of natural resources " performing. brings with it. ON advocates to make Germany independent of imported fossil fuels by the year 2030. The expansion of nuclear energy rejects it. The Federal Working Group " right to life " of the UP party is member of the Association 's right to life.
Structure
Federal Executive
National associations and their chairmen
History
In 2006 there were in Germany three Christian small parties - Party Shaker Bible Christians (PBC ), German Centre Party ( CENTER ), Ecological Democratic Party ( ODP ) - a desire to cooperate, which the Steering Committee "Dawn 2009 " officially gave expression. Here the concept was followed to establish with the parties listed and other individuals and groups a new Christian Social Party. A merger was not approved by the center and ODP and rejected at the Congress of the PBC in December 2007.
On 26 January 2008, the foundation of the " Party for Labour, Environment and Family - Christians for Germany " was ( ON ) in Berlin. National Chairman of the previous national chairman of the PBC Walter Weiblen was chosen depending a deputy national chairman was previously active in the Centre Party and the ödp. Walter Weiblen resigned in November 2008. On January 17, 2009 Peter Schneider, who previously holding senior positions with ODP was held, was elected as his successor. The ordinary federal party on 4/5 January 2010 in Fulda as the new national chairman chose the former Federal Treasurer Dieter Burr. His deputies of Nuremberg entrepreneur Mathias Scheuschner and the chemist Markus Widenmeyer from Oklahoma were selected. The majority of the functionaries of UP sat down according to their history initially made up of former members of the PBC, the Centre Party and the ODP together; it can be found at the state association level as well as some former members of the CDU again, with Andreas Weidling, the chairman of the National Association of Baden- Württemberg.
The UP Party is supported by the right to life learning. Among the most prominent supporters include the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Christa Meves, which contributed mainly programmatic Protect assistance. This is taken up critically in the left scene. At the state convention of the UP party Baden- Württemberg in April 2011 in Baden -Baden, the journalist Franz Alt was supportive words: It is for ON, " a new value- conservative party in the sense of preserving creation to be ' " and so the CDU competition making.
The German Centre Party ( CENTER ) and the Party Spreader Bible Christians (PBC ) measures establishing the competing party first with regret position. Since 2010 is amplified been working on a collaboration between ON and PBC ( "Alliance C"), as both parties want to hardly differ in the content and join forces. 2013, there was particular in North Rhine -Westphalia to a spin-off and re-open the party awakening C.
The party was admitted to the European elections in 2009 and organized campaign events with Eva Herman and the publicist Martin Lohmann. The ON concluded for an electoral alliance with the Libertas and achieved in the election 38,000 votes, representing a vote share of 0.1%.
In the 2009 federal election, the party did not happen, since it was located by its own account under construction. In 2013 she decided not to run.
Participation in state elections
On 30 March 2010, the country's list of ON - party was admitted to the state election in North Rhine -Westphalia on May 9, 2010. It was the first participation of the UP party at a state election. Nationally, gave a total of 5,243 voters ( 0.1 %) of the ON - party their second vote. In the constituency lip III stepped Jens Köhler, councilor of the UP party in Detmold, as a direct candidate and obtained for 1.5 % of the primary vote; 1.2 % of the second votes were cast in his constituency on the UP party.
For the state election in Baden- Württemberg on 27 March 2011, the UP party was approved in 15 of 70 constituencies in which they reached 0.6 to 1.6 % of the vote. In all these 15 constituencies ON thus achieved better results than the small parties from which they emerged. The overall result of the UP party was at the country level with 10,421 votes 0.2%.
In the state elections in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern 4 September 2011 ON reached 0.2% of the vote and positioned himself at a low level before their home parties PBC and ODP, which achieved 0.1 %. The highest for ON - party in the constituency I Güstrow off with a result of 1.1%.
For the early state election in North Rhine -Westphalia 13 May 2012 ON was approved on 14 April 2012; she was so coverage can be selected with the second vote. The country list led to the deputy state chairman Horst Schulze. In five of the 128 constituencies ON occurred - in the areas of Bielefeld and lip - also with direct candidates. Here it reached 0.5 to 1.4 % of the primary vote and 0.4 to 1.8 % of the second votes. Nationally, the party got 10,224 votes and again 0.1%. At this low level, ON was able to place before competing ODP in contrast to the state election of 2010 - the PBC occurred due to lack of approval does not and gave a recommendation to vote for OPEN.
Representation in local councils
In Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, the ON - party since 2008 in Güstrow had a council mandate in the newly cut in 2011, has become larger district of Rostock was held. In addition, the party has three seats in local councils since 2009 in the aforementioned County: 2 seats in the municipality Kuchelmiß (19.9%) and a seat in the municipality Langhagen ( 8.3%). In Saarland, a seat in the council of Mettlach were at the municipal election in 2009 reached as well as in the districts of Mettlach Tünsdorf (8.8%) and Wehingen ( 43.3 %) one or four seats in Ortsrat. In Ortsrat of Wehingen while the UP Party became the strongest party. In the Hessian town of Gross -Zimmern in the district of Darmstadt- Dieburg the UP won in the election for municipal council in March 2011 with 2.2% of votes a seat