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National Besmenian Party

Nationale Besmenische Partei
AbbreviationNBP
ChairpersonMarkus Ernst
General SecretaryJens Schechter
FounderAlexander von Wiest
Founded28 May 1990
Preceded byBesmenian Republican Party
HeadquartersUlrich-Fribel-Straße 55, Laitstadt, Besmenia
Youth wingNational Besmenian Youth
Membership (2021)101,836
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing to far-right
Colors  Turquoise
  Red
Federal Chamber
45 / 443
Federal Senate
6 / 64
Seats in the state parliaments
195 / 1,488

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 thirteen of the fourteen 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. Since October 2022, the NBP has been involved as a junior partner in a governing coalition with the BVP in Sedakania.

History

Background

Logo of the NBP from 1990 to 1994.

The predecessor of the National Besmenian Party was the Besmenian Republican Party (BRP), which was founded in 1957 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 Besmenian People's Party 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 April 1990.

Founding and Von Wiest era (1990-2011)

At the party's founding convention on May 28, 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.

Assassination of Von Wiest and years of crisis (2011-2016)

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.

Ernst leadership (2016-Present)

Ideology and policies

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 Nortuan 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.

Federal states in which the NBP
  is the leading party
  is a member of the state government
  is a opposition party
  is not represented in the state chamber

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.

Migration and asylum policy

The NBP advocates a significant tightening of the asylum law and a curbing of immigration, and criticizes the high proportion of foreigners in the numerically sharply increased disability pensions and in social assistance. In the opinion of the party, such grants are often paid out unjustly and thus waste taxpayers' money. Many members of the NBP are also critical of Islam.

Defense policy

The NBP supports the retention of conscription and a military build-up of the Besmenian Federal Army.

Environmental and climate policy

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 Dieter Rathmann 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 Hans-Peter Göhring 10,5% 4th place

Leaders of the NBP since 1990

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Tenure
(Years and days)
State Prime Minister
1 Alexander von Wiest2.png
Alexander von Wiest
(1947–2011)
10 July
1990
25 September
2011 †
21 years, 77 days Greuningia Martin Beiter
Kurt Stöger
Erik Tautenbach
Ursula Kummstein
Jörg Rautenberg
2 Matthias Lietz 2009.jpg
Dieter Rathmann
(1953–)
25 September
2011
19 July
2014
2 years, 297 days Laitstadt Jörg Rautenberg
Theodor Sidemann
3 Karsten Kremes.jpg
Karsten Kremes
(1956–)
19 July
2014
28 October
2016
2 years, 101 days Metakumburg Theodor Sidemann
4 Herbert Kickl - Pressekonferenz am 1. Sep. 2020.JPG
Markus Ernst
(1968–)
28 October
2016
Incumbent 7 years, 153 days Zollingia Theodor Sidemann
Richard Benkel
Elisabeth Rademacher