The Republicans (Germany)
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The Republicans
Die Republikaner |
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| Leader | Kevin Krieger |
| Founded | 26 November 1983 |
| Split from | Christian Social Union in Bavaria |
| Headquarters | Munich, Bavaria |
| Membership | 6,800 (2009) |
| Ideology |
National conservatism Right-wing populism Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | None |
| Colours | Blue |
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| http://www.rep.de | |
The Republicans (German: Die Republikaner, REP) is a national conservative political party in Germany. The primary plank of the program is opposition to immigration. 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 the party's leader from 1985 to 1994. The party has since been led by Rolf Schlierer. The Republicans had seats in the European Parliament in the 1980s, and in the parliament of the German state of Baden-Württemberg until 2001.
The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution between 1992 and 2006 said that the Republicans were a "party with partially extreme-right tendencies" although the Republican leadership did rebuff an electoral alliance with more openly extreme-right parties such as the National Democratic Party of Germany, losing members to these more successful parties. The Republicans' strongholds tended to be in relatively affluent South Germany rather than the more economically depressed Eastern Germany where the more radical right-wing parties tended to do well.
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