Alternative Democratic Reform Party
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The Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR;
The party was founded in 1987, as a
Political success has required the ADR to develop positions on all matters of public policy, developing an
History
Emergence
The ADR has its roots in a demonstration in
In the
On 22 November 1992, the name was changed again, to 'Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice' (Aktiounskomitee fir Demokratie an Rentengerechtigkeet).
Mainstream party
On 3 August 1998, a law was passed equalising pension provision between civil servants and other workers,
One of ADR's hallmark positions is its
On 2 April 2006 the name was changed once more, to its current name of 'Alternative Democratic Reform Party' (Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei).
On 29 May 2008, the ADR deputies and Jaerling were the only members not to vote for the
On 8 June 2010, the ADR joined the
During the
3 years after the Referendum, on 2 March 2018, the ADR announced that it would be co-operating with the citizen's movement Wee 2050 - Nee 2015, which had been founded pre-referendum to campaign for the "3 x No". The cooperation agreement involved Wee 2050 having up to 8 places on the ADR's electoral lists for the legislative election of October 2018, and ensured that the movement could remain relatively independent by not requiring the Wee 2050 candidates to be members of the ADR per se.
In 2020-2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ADR was the only political party in Luxembourg to oppose governmental measures like closing restaurants, claiming the restrictions infringed upon personal freedoms.[33]
Ideology
The party was founded as a single-issue party, to introduce equality between private and public sector pensions. The focus on pension reform allowed it to make it the core campaign issue of all five elections in the first ten years of its formation.[34] By 1998, the party had forced the government to accede almost all of its demands.[35] However, this success has not thwarted the ADR,[35] and it has diversified its programme to cover all aspects of public policy.
The party is a supporter of
The party places great importance on promoting the
The party is marked out from the other parties by being softly
The Shoura (the assembly of the Muslim community of the Grand Duchy) stated in a 2013 review that "of all political parties in Luxembourg, ADR is the party that appears most hostile to Muslims, true to its clichés that
Furthermore, in its declaration of principles it has outlined, among others, the following priorities:[49]
- Human rights and individual freedoms
- Parliamentarian democracy in form of a constitutional monarchy
- Implementation of referendums)
- Freedom of the press
- Judicial independence
- Equal treatment between men and women
- Social justice
- Preservation and promotion of the Luxembourgish language(and giving it the status of an official language of the European Union)
- Against discrimination and for equal use of Luxembourgish and German in contrast to French in state institutions and society, and thus preservation of multilingualism in Luxembourg
- Seeing Luxembourg as having heritage in Greco-Roman civilization with Judeo-Christiantraditions
- Seeing Luxembourg as a refuge for politically and religiously persecutedpeople
- Integration of refugees and immigrants into Luxembourgish society by respecting Luxembourgish, European and democratic values
- For the creation a Common European Defense policy
- A commitment to a green an environmentally friendly policy and the ethical treatment of animals
Political support
The ADR's primary political base are the CSV's 'traditional, rural and rightist' voters.
Due to the party's original purpose of pension equality, the party's electoral base is pensioners. However, disproportionately many people under the age of 24 also see the ADR in a positive light.[54] ADR is particularly popular on the Internet, despite the party leadership's lack of interest in the medium, due in part to its popularity amongst young people.[55] The party is most popular amongst people earning less than €30,000,[53] and has attracted support from the part of the CSV's core electorate that have been left out of recent economic growth.[56] As with the CSV and LSAP, the ADR is supported by people with less education.[57]
The party is backed by the third-largest general trade union in the country, the small
Election results
Chamber of Deputies
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Government |
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1989
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225,262 | 7.9 (#4) | 4 / 60
|
New | Opposition |
1994
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244,045 | 9.0 (#5) | 5 / 60
|
1 | Opposition |
1999
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303,734 | 11.3 (#4) | 7 / 60
|
2 | Opposition |
2004
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278,792 | 10.0 (#5) | 5 / 60
|
2 | Opposition |
2009
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303,734 | 11.3 (#5) | 4 / 60
|
1 | Opposition |
2013
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217,683 | 6.6 (#5) | 3 / 60
|
1 | Opposition |
2018
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292,388 | 8.3 (#5) | 4 / 60
|
1 | Opposition |
2023 | 348,990 | 9.3 (#4) | 5 / 60
|
1 | Opposition |
European Parliament
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1994 | 70,470 | 6.9 (#5) | 0 / 6
|
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1999 | 91,118 | 9.0 (#5) | 0 / 6
|
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2004 | 87,666 | 8.0 (#5) | 0 / 6
|
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2009 | 83,168 | 7.4 (#5) | 0 / 6
|
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2014 | 88,298 | 7.5 (#5) | 0 / 6
|
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2019 | 125,988 | 10.0 (#5) | 0 / 6
|
Leaders
Party presidents
- Gaston Gibéryen (1987–1989)
- John Bram (1989–1991)
- Robert Mehlen (1991 – 2013)
- Fernand Kartheiser (2013)
- Jean Schoos (2013 – 2022)
- Fred Keup (2022-2024)
- Alexandra Schoos (2024-)
Elected representatives
Since its formation, the ADR has had thirteen
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See also
Footnotes
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- ^ Warnand, Julien (9 October 2018). "Luxembourg". Saarbrücker Zeitung. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ a b "All about the Alternativ Demokratësch Reformpartei (ADR)". 11 December 2017.
- ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Luxembourg". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
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- ^ "ADR vice-president resigns over Facebook comments". Luxembourg Times. 10 December 2019.
The vice-president of Luxembourg's right-wing party ADR has resigned over comments she made on the foreign ministers' Facebook post on taking refugees from Niger.
- ^ "The Christian Social Party comes out ahead in the general elections in Luxembourg but is not sure to return to office". www.robert-schuman.eu. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ Christopher Cochrane. Support for Far-Right Anti-Immigration Political Parties in Advanced Industrial States: Insiders, Outsiders and Economic Disaffection. Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy.
- ^ "Politieke fracties". Benelux Parliament (in Dutch). Retrieved 8 August 2023.
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- ^ van Kessel, Stijn Theodoor (2001). Supply and demand: identifying populist parties in Europe and explaining their electoral performance. Doctoral thesis (DPhil) (PDF) (thesis). University of Sussex. pp. 67–68.
- ^ Camus, Jean-Yves. "Extremism-researcher Camus: "The ADR is not right-wing populist" (Interview). Interviewed by Christoph Bumb & Pol Schock.
- ^ Federspiel, Sophie (October 2016). "Rechts abbiegen oder stehen bleiben? Die politische Orientierung der ADR" (PDF). Forum (366).
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- ^ "Mémorial A, 1998, No. 70" (PDF) (in French). Service central de législation. Retrieved 20 April 2008.
- European Voice. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
- ^ "ADR: Jaerling prend la tangente" (in French). PaperJam.lu. 21 April 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2006. [dead link]
- ^ "Le hara-kiri d'Aly Jaerling" (in French). L'investigateur. 2006. Archived from the original on 6 May 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2006.
- ^ "ECR Group - European Conservatives and Reformists Group". Archived from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
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- ^ Dumont et al (2006), p. 77
- ^ ""Nos portes ont toujours été ouvertes"". 3 March 2020.
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- ^ "Lëtzebuerger Sprooch stäerken: ADR: Wichteg Gesetzer och op Lëtzebuergesch".
- ^ "Letzebuergesch dei sprooch fir eist land". Archived from the original on 23 October 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "De l'usage de la langue luxembourgeoise dans le contexte européen : Une question parlementaire de Fernand Kartheiser - Europaforum Luxembourg - Septembre 2010".
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- ^ Dumont et al (2006), p. 220
- ^ a b Dumont et al (2006), p. 95
- ^ a b Maier et al (2004), p. 144
- ^ Dumont et al (2006), p. 92
- ^ Maier et al (2004), p. 143
- ^ "La Shoura met la pression sur les partis".
- ^ "Grond satz programm" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ Van Hecke et al (2004), p. 180
- ^ Van Hecke et al (2004), p. 182
- ^ Van Hecke et al (2004), p. 187
- ^ a b Dumont et al (2006), p. 124
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- ^ Dumont et al (2006), p. 156
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- ^ Immergut et al (2007), p. 849
References
- Camus, Jean-Yves. "Extremism-researcher Camus: "The ADR is not right-wing populist" (Interview). Interviewed by Christoph Bumb & Pol Schock.
- Dumont, Patrick; Fehlen, Fernand; Kies, Raphaël; Poirier, Philippe (2006). "Les élections législatives et européennes de 2004 au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg" (PDF) (in French). Chamber of Deputies.)
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(help - Immergut, Ellen M.; Anderson, Karen M.; Schulze, Isabelle (2007). The Handbook of West European Pension Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-929147-2.
- Maier, Michaela; Tenscher, Jens (2004). Campaigning in Europe - Campaigning for Europe. Münster: LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-8258-9322-4.
- Van Hecke, Steven; Gerard, Emmanuel (2004). Christian Democratic Parties in Europe Since the End of the Cold War. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ISBN 978-90-5867-377-0.
External links
- (in Luxembourgish) Alternative Democratic Reform Party official website