Party of Reason Partei der Vernunft | |
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Leader | Friedrich Dominicus |
General Secretary | Dirk Hesse |
Deputy leaders | Enrico Pietzsch, Charles Krüger |
Executive director | Maria Zanke |
Treasurer | Alexander Malchow |
Additional executive committee members | Georg Semmler, Stefanie Kaiser, Lilia Kalaschnikova |
Founded | 30 May 2009 |
Headquarters | Markgrafenstr. 15 76646 Bruchsal Germany |
Membership (2011) | > 1,000 [1] |
Ideology |
Austro-libertarianism Euroscepticism Right-libertarianism |
European affiliation | European Party for Individual Liberty (EPIL) [2] |
International affiliation |
International Alliance of Libertarian Parties,
[3] Interlibertarians [4] |
Colors | Blue |
Slogan | "Wir lieben Freiheit." (We love liberty.) |
Bundestag | 0 / 709
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Regional Parliaments | 0 / 1,855
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European Parliament | 0 / 96
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Website | |
www.parteidervernunft.de | |
The Party of Reason ( German: Partei der Vernunft, PDV) is a libertarian political party in Germany founded in May 2009 by Oliver Janich. [5] [6]
The party's policies are based on the Austrian School of economics. It campaigns for libertarian positions, including a minimal state, and free markets. [7][ third-party source needed] It supports various positions such as not believing in anthropogenic global warming. [8]
In September 2013, the PDV, together with libertarian parties from Spain (Party of Individual Freedom), France ( Liberal Democratic Party) and the Netherlands ( Libertarian Party) signed the Utrecht Declaration and Covenant of European Classical Liberal and Libertarian Parties, establishing the European Party for Individual Liberty (EPIL). [9] [10]
In 2011, the PDV participated in the local elections in Lower Saxony, winning one seat in the Flecken Harsefeld municipal council, two seats in the Samtgemeinde Harsefeld municipal council, and a further seat in the Bremervörde municipal council. [11] [12] [13]
Harald Ebert, member of the City council of Erding, and former member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), joined the PDV in 2012. [14] [15] [16]
The party's first participation in German state elections was in the 2012 North Rhine-Westphalia state election on 13 May 2012, but it did not secure any seats in the Landtag. [17] [18]
The PDV participated 2013 federal election on 22 September 2013, [19] attaining ballot access in four states ( Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate), [20] and winning almost 25,000 second votes (0.1%). [21] The party also fielded a number of direct candidates. [22]
Party of Reason Partei der Vernunft | |
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![]() | |
Leader | Friedrich Dominicus |
General Secretary | Dirk Hesse |
Deputy leaders | Enrico Pietzsch, Charles Krüger |
Executive director | Maria Zanke |
Treasurer | Alexander Malchow |
Additional executive committee members | Georg Semmler, Stefanie Kaiser, Lilia Kalaschnikova |
Founded | 30 May 2009 |
Headquarters | Markgrafenstr. 15 76646 Bruchsal Germany |
Membership (2011) | > 1,000 [1] |
Ideology |
Austro-libertarianism Euroscepticism Right-libertarianism |
European affiliation | European Party for Individual Liberty (EPIL) [2] |
International affiliation |
International Alliance of Libertarian Parties,
[3] Interlibertarians [4] |
Colors | Blue |
Slogan | "Wir lieben Freiheit." (We love liberty.) |
Bundestag | 0 / 709
|
Regional Parliaments | 0 / 1,855
|
European Parliament | 0 / 96
|
Website | |
www.parteidervernunft.de | |
The Party of Reason ( German: Partei der Vernunft, PDV) is a libertarian political party in Germany founded in May 2009 by Oliver Janich. [5] [6]
The party's policies are based on the Austrian School of economics. It campaigns for libertarian positions, including a minimal state, and free markets. [7][ third-party source needed] It supports various positions such as not believing in anthropogenic global warming. [8]
In September 2013, the PDV, together with libertarian parties from Spain (Party of Individual Freedom), France ( Liberal Democratic Party) and the Netherlands ( Libertarian Party) signed the Utrecht Declaration and Covenant of European Classical Liberal and Libertarian Parties, establishing the European Party for Individual Liberty (EPIL). [9] [10]
In 2011, the PDV participated in the local elections in Lower Saxony, winning one seat in the Flecken Harsefeld municipal council, two seats in the Samtgemeinde Harsefeld municipal council, and a further seat in the Bremervörde municipal council. [11] [12] [13]
Harald Ebert, member of the City council of Erding, and former member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), joined the PDV in 2012. [14] [15] [16]
The party's first participation in German state elections was in the 2012 North Rhine-Westphalia state election on 13 May 2012, but it did not secure any seats in the Landtag. [17] [18]
The PDV participated 2013 federal election on 22 September 2013, [19] attaining ballot access in four states ( Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate), [20] and winning almost 25,000 second votes (0.1%). [21] The party also fielded a number of direct candidates. [22]