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==Ideology and policies==
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==Organization==
==Organization==
==Chairmans of the BRP==
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!colspan=2|Leader
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!style="background:#FFAB00;" |1
|style="width:200px;"|[[Reinhard Heide]]
|style="width:125px;"|1957–1970
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!style="background:#FFAB00;" |2
|style="width:200px;"|[[Konrad Berger]]
|style="width:125px;"|1970–1982
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!style="background:#FFAB00;" |3
|style="width:200px;"|[[Helmut Schwarzberg]]
|style="width:125px;"|1982–1989
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!style="background:#FFAB00;" |4
|style="width:200px;"|[[Alexander von Wiest]]
|style="width:125px;"|1989–1990
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===Regional associations===
===Regional associations===
==Electoral results==
==Electoral results==
===[[Federal Chamber (Besmenia)|Federal Chamber]]===
===[[Federal Chamber (Besmenia)|Federal Chamber]]===

Revision as of 22:28, 28 June 2024

Besmenian Libertarian Party

Besmenische Libertäre Partei
AbbreviationBELP
ChairpersonRainer Menschik
General SecretaryWolfgang Sobanik
Founded13 November 1964
Split fromFree Besmenian Citizen's Party
HeadquartersFreiz, Besmenia
Membership (2021)18,946
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
Colors  Dark Turquoise
  White
Federal Chamber
0 / 442
Federal Senate
0 / 64
Seats in the state parliaments
14 / 1,488

The Besmenian Libertarian Party (Besmenian: Besmenische Libertäre Partei, BELP) is a libertarian political party in Besmenia founded in November 1964.

The BELP was founded in November 1964 as a moderate party with libertarian and national liberal positions by former LBB politicians. After several internal power struggles, more moderate leaders left the party, so that the party developed significantly to the right during the leadership of Udo Kühbacher from 1964 until his death in 1988 and adopted right-wing to far-right positions.

The party had its greatest political significance in the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, when it was represented in the Federal Chamber. The BELP was also initially represented in several state parliaments from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and even participated in the state government in some federal states, such as in Laitstadt from 1974 to 1979 or Sedakania from 1972 to 1977. After the BELP was only able to achieve success at the municipal level from the early 1980s to the early 2010s, the party regained political importance in the mid-2010s and managed to re-enter the Federal Chamber in 2016 after 40 year and in some state parliaments. During this time, the BELP benefited primarily from the then party crisis of the National Besmenian Party. In the early 2020s, the party lost its political importance again and withdrew from the Federal Chamber in 2020, as well as from almost all state parliaments at that time.

The current stronghold of the BELP is Maurenmark, where the party has been represented intermittently since its re-election in 2014.

History

The first years (1965-1968)

BELP in the Federal Chamber (1968-1976)

Loss at the federal level (1976-2015)

Increase in voters and renewed representation in the Federal Chamber (2015-2020)

Since 2020

Ideology and policies

Organization

Chairmans of the BRP

Leader Year
1 Reinhard Heide 1957–1970
2 Konrad Berger 1970–1982
3 Helmut Schwarzberg 1982–1989
4 Alexander von Wiest 1989–1990

Regional associations

Electoral results

Federal Chamber

President

Leaders of BELP since 1965