Content deleted Content added
Fix cite and combine refs. |
mNo edit summary Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
Line 32:
In the [[2013 German federal election|2013 federal elections]], the Republicans received only 0.2 percent of the total national vote.
==
The [[CDU/CSU]] parties witnessed increasing dissatisfaction of their right wing in the 1980s, while at the same time the extreme-right [[National Democratic Party of Germany]] (NPD) was in decline. The CDU/CSU policies of European integration and acceptance of the ''[[Ostpolitik]]'' led to much criticism initially. Finally, in 1983, in complete breach of the party's long-term opposition to measures that could stabilize the economy of [[East Germany]] (GDR), CSU leader [[Franz Josef Strauss]] supported a credit of more than ten billion ''[[Deutsche Mark]]'' to the country. This led several members of the CSU to leave the party, including Members of Parliament [[Franz Handlos]] and [[Ekkehard Voigt]].<ref name="m31">Mudde, 2003, p. 31.</ref>▼
==
▲The [[CDU/CSU]] parties witnessed increasing dissatisfaction of their right wing in the 1980s, while at the same time the extreme-right [[National Democratic Party of Germany]] (NPD) was in decline. The CDU/CSU policies of European integration and acceptance of the ''[[Ostpolitik]]'' led to much criticism initially. Finally, in 1983, in complete breach of the party's long-term opposition to measures that could stabilize the economy of [[East Germany]] (GDR), CSU leader [[Franz Josef Strauss]] supported a credit of more than ten billion ''[[Deutsche Mark]]'' to the country. This led several members of the CSU to leave the party, including Members of Parliament [[Franz Handlos]] and [[Ekkehard Voigt]].<ref name="m31">Mudde, 2003, p. 31.</ref>
===Formation and Handlos leadership===
Line 81:
In its first programme, the Republicans fully supported [[European integration]], with the long-term goal of turning into a federal state. Since the signing of the [[Maastricht Treaty]], opposition to the European Union has become one of the party's most important issues, and it turned to support a confederal state instead of a federal one.<ref>Mudde, 2003, pp. 45 and 48.</ref> The party perceives the international community to be especially hostile towards Germany, and criticises what it considers to be certain limitations of Germany's sovereignty.<ref>Mudde, 2003, pp. 47–48.</ref>
== Organization ==
==International relations==▼
=== Leadership ===▼
* [[Franz Handlos]] (1983–1985)▼
* [[Franz Schönhuber]] (1985–1994)▼
* [[Rolf Schlierer]] (1994–2014)▼
* [[Johann Gärtner]] (2014–2016)▼
* [[Kevin Krieger]] (2016–2019)▼
* [[Michael Felgenheuer]] (2019)▼
* [[Tilo Schöne]] (since 2019)▼
▲=== International relations ===
The Republicans has never been particularly active in establishing relations with other parties internationally.<ref name="m38">Mudde, 2003, p. 38.</ref> After being elected to the European Parliament in 1989, it briefly teamed up in the [[European Right (1989–1994)|European Right]] group with the French [[National Front (France)|National Front]] (FN) and the Belgian [[Vlaams Blok]]. Together with the Vlaams Blok, the Republicans sought to move the FN away from the [[Italian Social Movement]], which was in conflict with the Republicans over the territorial dispute of [[South Tyrol]].<ref name="m33">Mudde, 2003, p. 33.</ref> The Republicans' alliance with these parties however ended already in 1990, when they accepted Neubauer's DVU instead of the Republicans in the European Right group. After the fall of [[communism]] in [[Eastern Europe]], the Republicans was also briefly the inspiration for some short-lived initiatives in countries including [[Hungary]], [[Ukraine]], [[Latvia]] and [[Czechoslovakia]].<ref name="m38"/>
Line 168 ⟶ 178:
| 0
|}
▲==Leadership==
▲* [[Franz Handlos]] (1983–1985)
▲* [[Franz Schönhuber]] (1985–1994)
▲* [[Rolf Schlierer]] (1994–2014)
▲* [[Johann Gärtner]] (2014–2016)
▲* [[Kevin Krieger]] (2016–2019)
▲* [[Michael Felgenheuer]] (2019)
▲* [[Tilo Schöne]] (since 2019)
==References==
| |||