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The Right Die Rechte | |
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| President | Christian Worch[1] |
| Founded | 27 May 2012; 12 years ago (2012-05-27) |
| Split from | German People's Union |
| Headquarters | Thusneldastr. 3 44149Dortmund |
| Ideology | Neo-Nazism Ultranationalism Pan-Germanism Anti-immigration |
| Political position | Far-right[2][3] |
| Anthem | DIE RECHTE Parteihymne[4] |
| Bundestag | 0 / 709 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 96 |
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| Website | |
| die-rechte.net | |
The Right – Party for Referendum, Sovereignty and Homeland Protection (German:Die Rechte – Partei für Volksabstimmung, Souveränität und Heimatschutz) is afar-rightpolitical party in Germany.
The party was founded in 2012 by the neo-NaziChristian Worch, along with many members of theGerman People's Union (DVU) in protest against the merger of their party into theNational Democratic Party (NPD).[5][6][7] The party name was inspired byDie Linke, a left-wing political party. 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 andSiegfried Borchardt) had created a party on 15 September 2012.[8]
On 5 July 2014, the 5th Federal Party Congress took place inHamm (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 theFacebook social network for violations of the company'sTerms of Service.
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 lookalikeStefan Wijkamp[nl] was a former board member for the party.
Worch's successor was the multiply convicted Dortmund neo-Nazi squad Christoph Drewer.[9] 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 chose the imprisoned, repeatedly sentenced 90-year-old Holocaust denierUrsula Haverbeck as its top candidate.
| Election | Constituency | Party list | Seats | +/– | Status | ||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 2013 | 2,245 | 0.0 | 0 / 631 | New | Extra-parliamentary | ||
| 2017 | 1,142 | 0.0 | 2,054 | 0.0 | 0 / 631 | New | Extra-parliamentary |
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| 2019 | 24,598 | 0.07 (#36) | 0 / 96 |  |
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