The Right – Party for Referendum, Sovereignty and Homeland Protection (german: Die Rechte – Partei für Volksabstimmung, Souveränität und Heimatschutz) is a
far-right political party in Germany
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History
The party was founded in 2012 by the neo-Nazi
Christian Worch, along with many members of the
German People's Union
The German People's Union (german: Deutsche Volksunion, DVU, also ''Liste D'') was a political party in Germany. It was founded by publisher Gerhard Frey as an informal association in 1971 and established as a party in 1987. Financially, it was l ...
(DVU) in protest against the merger of their party into the
National Democratic Party (NPD). In May 2012 circles of the dissolved DVU announced the establishment of a new party in competition with the NPD was planned. In June 2012, articles of association and the party program were forwarded to the Federal Returning Officer for examination. On 13 October 2012 the second federal convention of The Right took place in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine.
In January 2013, the Public Prosecutor's Office in Dortmund concluded that the founding of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Association was insufficient reason for a preliminary investigation. It examined a violation in August 2012 of the prohibition of association for the National Resistance Dortmund ('' Nationaler Widerstand Dortmund'', NWDO). The "hard core" of the NWDO (Dennis Giemsch, Michael Brück and
Siegfried Borchardt) had created a party on 15 September 2012.
On 5 July 2014, the 5th Federal Party Congress took place in
Hamm (NRW), where Christian Worch was once again elected Federal Chairman. Ingeborg Lobocki resigned as Deputy Chairman and Treasurer for health reasons, replaced by Tatjana Berner.
On 13 January 2016, it was announced that the party's websites were deleted from the
Facebook
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On 28 October 2017, Worch was confirmed as chairman at the federal party convention with 78.4% of the votes. Subsequently, however, the Thuringian State Association demanded that the federal party should decide "that the party is fully committed to the rights of the German national community." Worch held a counter-speech and rejected the request for legal and political reasons. The majority of the members followed the Thuringian state association and not Worch. Worch then resigned and left the party.
Dutch Neo-Nazi and Hitler lookalike
Stefan Wijkamp was a former board member for the party.
Worch's successor was the multiply convicted Dortmund neo-Nazi squad Christoph Drewer.
“Die Rechte” verliert Vorsitzenden
/ref> On 1 April 2018, Bruck and Sascha Krolzig were elected as federal co-chairmen at a federal party conference; At the same time, the party added in its name the wording "Party for Referendum, Sovereignty and Homeland Protection".
For the European elections in 2019, The Right has chosen the imprisoned, repeatedly sentenced 90-year-old Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck as its top candidate.
Election results
Federal Parliament (''Bundestag'')
European Parliament
References
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Eurosceptic parties in Germany
Far-right political parties in Germany
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Neo-Nazism in Germany
Political parties established in 2012
Anti-immigration politics in Germany