National Besmenian Party

National Besmenian Party Nationale Besmenische Partei
Abbreviation	NBP
Chairperson	Markus Ernst
General Secretary	Herbert Schüssel
Founded	10 July 1990
Preceded by	Besmenian Republican Party
Headquarters	Ulrich-Fribel-Straße 55, Laitstadt, Besmenia
Youth wing	National Besmenian Youth
Membership (2021)	101,836
Ideology	Besmenian Nationalism National conservatism Social conservatism Right-wing populism Anti-Immigration ANS-scepticism Economic liberalism
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
Colors	Turquoise   Red
Federal Chamber	45 / 442
Federal Senate	0 / 60
Seats in the state parliaments	155 / 1,398

The National Besmenian Party (Besmenian: Nationale Besmenische Partei) is a national conservative and right-wing populist party in Besmenia.

The NBP is represented in the Federal Chamber since 1993. The National Besmenian Party was formed by the merger of the Besmenian Republican Party and the National Besmenian Alliance on July 10, 1990. The party is accused of having a close relationship with right-wing extremism. As a result, most of the other major parties have no interest in forming a coalition with the NBP.

The NBP is currently represented with 45 deputies in the Federal Chamber and in twelve of the thirteen state chambers. Between 1998 and 2008, the NBP ruled as the strongest party in a coalition with the BVP in the Besmenian federal state of Greuningia, with then party leader Alexander von Wiest as governor.

History

Background

Logo of the NBP from 1990 to 1994.

The predecessor of the National Besmenian Party was the Besmenian Republican Party, which was founded in 1956 and was represented in the Federal Chamber from 1960 to 1989. Between 1972 and 1980, the BRP was involved as a junior partner in a governing coalition with the BVP under Robert Gleitzmann. The 1980s were marked by internal crises and conflicts because, like the BVP, the BRP had come under massive criticism as a result of the Gleitzmann scandal that erupted in 1983 and had to take electoral losses. While the BVP under Erik Tautenbach managed to overcome the consequences of the Gleitzmann scandal in the late 1980s and was able to show electoral successes again, the BRP did not manage to do so under its chairman Helmut Schwarzberg. In the 1989 election, the BRP failed to get into the Federal Chamber with an overall result of 4.6%

On October 16, 1989, an extraordinary party congress was held, which analyzed the causes of the electoral defeat and elected a completely new presidium. At this party conference, the then 42-year-old Alexander von Wiest was elected as the new chairman. Von Wiest spoke out in favor of re-establishing the party in order to also appeal to young voters. Negotiations soon began with the right-wing populist party National Besmenian Alliance, which was founded in 1987, about a joint merger. The negotiation talks were successfully concluded in May 1990.

Von Wiest era (1990-2011)

At the party's founding convention on July 10, 1990 in Laitstadt, Von Wiest was elected party chairman. At the same time, the respective national organizations of the party were renamed and restructured. All previous members of the BRP and NAB automatically received NBP membership.

Post-Von Wiest era (2011-)

On September 12, 2011, Alexander von Wiest was kidnapped and murdered by Al-Fijar supporters. The next day, the NBP party executive nominated the previous general secretary and deputy party chairman Karsten Kremes to succeed Von Wiest.

In the early 2012 Besmenian federal election, the NBP had to take election losses for the first time at the federal level, but managed to hold on to the fourth spot that the party had held since 2001. Political scientists justified the loss of the election with the end of the Von Wiest era, the resulting end of Von Wiest's participation in the NBP and doubts about his successor Kremes.

In December 2012, a right-wing liberal course was decided at the NBP party congress in Samaroda. According to this, liberal action should be taken on economic policy issues, but the socio-political positions will remain right-wing conservative. Since then, the NBP has recognized the social market economy as Besmenia's economic system.

Ideology and policies

NBP election poster from the 2020 Besmenian federal election.

Economic policy

The NBP is committed to a freely competitive social market economy based on private property. The NBP is also in favor of abolishing wage tax classes

Education policy

The party is opposed to federalism in education policy and calls for centralization at federal level.

Foreign policy

ANS

Ever since it was founded in the summer of 1990, the NBP has rejected the Alliance of Northern States as a political alliance and only advocated an economic community. Besmenia's resignation from the ANS is required from individual representatives. Officially and from the party leadership, leaving the ANS is only an option if there are no fundamental reforms within the ANS.

Family and social policy

The NBP represents conservative, anti-feminist positions in gender politics and rejects equality politics and gender mainstreaming. In doing so, it relies, among other things, on Christian fundamentalist and völkisch ideas. The NBP considers demographic issues to be relevant. She advocates the traditional family of man and woman and opposes both quotas for women and the supposed abolition of gender identities.

Election results

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Federal Chamber

Election	Prime Minister Candidate	Votes in %	Seats	Government
1993	Alexander von Wiest	7,3% (#5)	32 / 427	Opposition
1997	Alexander von Wiest	8,9% (#5)	38 / 427	Opposition
2001	Manfred Gerbrecht	9,6% (#4)	41 / 427	Opposition
2005	Heinrich Perger	10,5% (#4)	45 / 427	Opposition
2009	Alexander von Wiest	11,5% (#4)	49 / 427	Opposition
2012	Karsten Kremes	9,8% (#4)	42 / 427	Opposition
2016	Karsten Kremes	5,7% (#6)	28 / 427	Opposition
2020	Markus Ernst	7,7% (#6)	33 / 427	Opposition
2021	Franz Weinreich	9,6% (#6)	43 / 427	Opposition

President

Election	Candidate	First round result		Second round result
		Votes in %	Result	Votes in %	Result
1991	No candidate
1997	Michael Breitmann	6,7%	4th place
2003	Peter Treudler	27,1%	2nd place
2009	No candidate
2015	No candidate
2021	No candidate

Leaders of the NBP since 1990

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	State	Prime Minister
1		Alexander von Wiest (1947–2011)	10 July 1990	19 September 2011 †	21 years, 71 days	Greuningia	Martin Beiter Kurt Stöger Erik Tautenbach Ursula Kummstein Jörg Rautenberg
2		Karsten Kremes (1957–)	19 September 2011	17 October 2016	5 years, 28 days	Gablitz	Jörg Rautenberg Theodor Sidemann
3		Markus Ernst (1976–)	17 October 2016	Incumbent	8 years, 13 days	Zollingia	Theodor Sidemann Richard Benkel Elisabeth Rademacher