Rechte
Nidwaldeser Rechte | |
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| Abbreviation | Rechte |
| Leader | Charlotte Mann |
| Parliamentary leader | Thomas von der Leyen |
| Founded | 25 July 1834 |
| Headquarters | Genistre 224, Cologne, Nidwalden |
| Youth wing | Young Rechte |
| Membership | 29,500 (2017) |
| Ideology | Ludwigism, reformism, social democracy, statism |
| Political position | centre-right |
| Colours | Blue |
| Slogan | Ludwgisists United |
| Nidwaldeser Parlament | 87 / 169
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| County Councils | 167 / 425
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| Website | |
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Rechte (literally "right"), full name Nidwaldeser Rechte (English: Nidwaldester Right) is a centre-right ludwigist political party of Nidwalden. It is the oldest and major party in Nidwalden as well as the leading party in the Mann Cabinet. The current leader is the Prime Minister Charlotte Mann.
The party governed during most of the nineteenth century with a strong opposition of the conservative Nationalist Party. In 1903 Ludwig Mann won the elections and started the ludwigist era of the Rechte and Nidwalden, the party implemented several progressive and innovative reforms in the Church, the labour and social areas that set the bases for the long democratic heritage of Nidwalden. In 1915 the party proposed Christen Holsteinborg for the position of Prime Minister, which later that same year, turned into the first democratically elected woman in Nidwalden and Astyria. Between 1935 and 1947 the liberal conservative faction of the Rechte formed a coalition with the Nationalist Party against the recently founded Social Democrat Party, the coalition caused a gradual flow of Rechte ludwgisists to the leftist party that increased after first Social Democrat administration of Christopher Hornsrud in 1951.
Since its beginnings and with brief leadership of more right factions, the Rechte has been advocated to the protection of the Nidwaldester welfare state and Nidwaldester state owned enterprises, the promotion of social and economic equality and the vision of the state as a link between the social areas.