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The Republicans (
German:
Die Republikaner;
REP) is a nationalist
conservative political party in
Germany. The primary plank of the REP's program is
anti-immigration, and the party tends to attract
protest voters who think that the
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the
Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) are not sufficiently conservative. It was founded in
1983 by former CSU members
Franz Handlos and
Ekkehard Voigt, and
Franz Schönhuber was at one time the party's leader. It is currently led by
medical doctor Rolf Schlierer. In the
1980s the Republicans had several seats in the
European Parliament as well as in the parliament of the German state of
Baden-Württemberg. In Baden-Württemberg, the party has had seats until 2001. Currently they only attract between 1 and 2 percent of the vote in
Bavaria, and approximately 3.5 percent in Baden-Württemberg, thus failing to reach the 5 percent necessary to win seats in the parliaments.
The Republicans are considered by many Germans as extreme-right and neo-Nazi in orientation, but don't see themselves in that way. The avowedly extreme-right party
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and the far-right
German People's Union (DVU), both of which are more successful than the Republicans, have offered the Republicans a chance to join their
electoral alliance, but the REP leaders refused any cooperation with any openly extreme-right parties. However,
Kerstin Lorenz, a local leader of the REP sabotaged her own party's registration for the Saxony state elections, to the benefit of the NPD. After that election, the party lost extreme-right members to the DVU or NPD. It is interesting to note that the strongholds for the Republicans are different from the more radical parties, with the former being strongest in the relatively affluent
south Germany whilst the latter have had most success in the more economically depressed
eastern Germany.
In the
2005 federal elections, the REP received 0.6 percent of the total votes cast nationally. Its strongest showing was in the states of
Rhineland-Palatinate and
Baden-Württemberg. In each of these states, the Republicans received 1.1 percent of the vote.
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Related works
- Hans-Georg Betz: Politics of Resentment: Right-Wing Radicalism in West Germany. In: Comparative Politics. Vol. 23, No. 1. (October, 1990) pp. 45-60. Betz argues that parties like the Republikaner appeal to the "bottom third" of the "Zweidrittelgesellschaft" (2/3s society), mixing intellectual nationalism with lower-class populism. JSTOR Link
- Hans-Georg Betz: The New Politics of Resentment: Radical Ring-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe. In: Comparative Politics. Vol. 25, No. 4. (July, 1993) pp. 413-427. Here, Betz explores the ways that radical anti-system parties have attracted both xenophobic populists and libertarian entrepreneurs, in an alliance against the welfare state. JSTOR Link
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