The Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz ( German: ''Bürgerbewegung Pro Chemnitz''; known as Pro Chemnitz) is a municipal

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in the German city of

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

. and is an affiliated with the Free Saxony party.

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,

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service PayPal blocked the movement's account after more than 100,000 people petitioned it.

Elections

Chemnitz municipal elections

In the 2009 Chemnitz municipal election, the Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz (under the abbreviation DSU because they had members of that party on the list, later elections were under Pro C/DSU) received 12,608 votes, 4.57 per cent of the

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, and as a result took three out of 60 seats in the city council.

References

External links

Official website of the Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz

Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz
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