The Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz (

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: ''Bürgerbewegung Pro Chemnitz''; known as Pro Chemnitz) is a municipal

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in the

city of Chemnitz.

History

The Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz was initiated in 2009 by Karl Martin Kohlmann, a former Chemnitz

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member for The Republicans, and Reinhold Breede, former president of the city council at the beginning of the 1990s and a former CDU member. In March 2009 the city council group of The Republicans left the party ''en bloc'', owing to internal disputes, and became part of Pro Chemnitz and therefore the Citizens' Movement's

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. In November 2019, online payment service PayPal blocked the movement's account after more than 100,000 people petitioned it.

Elections

In the 2009 Chemnitz municipal election, the Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz received 12,608 votes, 4.57 per cent of the

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, and as a result hold three out of 60 seats in the city council.{{Cite web , url=http://www.chemnitz.de/chemnitz/de/buerger_und_rathaus/stadtrat/fraktionen.asp#pro , title=Fraktionen - Stadt Chemnitz - Stadt der Moderne , access-date=2009-10-14 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001120435/http://www.chemnitz.de/chemnitz/de/buerger_und_rathaus/stadtrat/fraktionen.asp#pro , archive-date=2009-10-01 , url-status=dead

References

External links

Official website of the Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz

Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz
on

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