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Human Environment Animal Protection Party

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The Human Environment Animal Protection Party (German: Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz, short form: Animal Protection Party, German: Tierschutzpartei) is a political party in Germany, founded in 1993. In 2014, one of the party's candidates was elected to the European Parliament, and one candidate was elected again in 2019. The party's only EU representative resigned from the party in February 2020 and since this date the party has had no members in the European Parliament. The party has never had any members in any of the German state parliaments, nor has it ever had any members of the Bundestag.

Animal Protection Party
Tierschutzpartei
ChairpersonsPaula López Vicente, Marcel Krohn, Robert Gabel
Founded13 February 1993
HeadquartersSchreiersgrüner Str. 5
08233 Treuen
Membership (2024)2,400[1]
IdeologyAnimal rights
Animal welfare
Environmentalism
Veganism[1]
Political positionLeft-wing[2]
European affiliationAnimal Politics EU
European Parliament groupThe Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL[3]
ColoursTeal
Bundestag
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State Parliaments
0 / 1,855
European Parliament
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Website
www.tierschutzpartei.de Edit this at Wikidata

Overview

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The party aspires to turn away from the anthropocentric view of life. Its main goal is the introduction of more animal rights into the German constitution. Those include the right to live and the protection from physical and psychological damages. The Tierschutzpartei also demands prohibition of animal testing, bullfighting, hunting, the production of furs, circus animals and agricultural animal husbandry, as well as the adaptation of the people to veganism. The party supports a ban on genetic engineering and wants a reduction of car traffic and an immediate exit from nuclear energy. Economically it supports more social justice, a stamp duty and a free basic income.[4]

In the 2014 European parliament elections, the Animal Protection Party received 1.25% of the national vote (366,303 votes in total) and returned one MEP, Stefan Eck, who sat with the EUL-NGL.[5] In December 2014 Eck left the party and became an independent MEP in the EUL-NGL-group.

In the 2019 European parliament elections, the Animal Protection Party received 1.45% of the national vote (541,984 votes in total) and returned one MEP, Martin Buschmann.[6] Buschmann resigned from the party in February 2020 after it was revealed that from 1992 to 1996 he was a member of and a chairman in the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).[7]

In the 2021 federal election, the Animal Protection Party received 1.5 % of the national vote (675,353 votes in total), which is the best result in a national election since the party has been founded.[8]

The party took an anti-war position towards the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that neither NATO or EU should "develop into a military global player", and condemning the militaristic and anti-Russian rhetoric. The party condemns the Russian invasion, but states that the European Union also bears responsibility for it. It supports a complete ban on arms exports to areas outside the EU, and argues that the EU should be forbidden from direct or indirect participation in foreign military actions, listing the wars in Middle East, Turkish conflict with Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish areas, as well as "the heated up conflict in Kosovo and also to the war in Ukraine" as examples. The Animal Protection Party also calls for dialogue with Russia and China, and believes that the Russian invasion should not lead to breakdown of diplomatic relations.[9]

The party holds 37 seats in municipality and county assemblies[10] and one seat in the Bezirkstag Oberbayern.[11]

Sebastian Everding was elected for the party in the 2024 European Parliament election in Germany.[12]

Election results

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European Parliament

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Election Votes % Seats +/– EP Group
1999 185,186 0.68 (#8)
0 / 99
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2004 331,388 1.29 (#8)
0 / 99
   0
2009 289,694 1.10 (#9)
0 / 99
   0
2014 366,598 1.25 (#10)
1 / 96
   1 GUE/NGL
2019 542,226 1.45 (#10)
1 / 96
   0 The Left
2024 570,498 1.43 (#12)
1 / 96
   0

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Hoppe, Friederike (7 June 2024). "Europawahl 2024: Mit diesen Plänen werben die kleinen Parteien". Norddeutscher Rundfunk (in German).
  2. ^ Schumacher, Elizabeth (28 January 2020). "German EU lawmaker resigns over neo-Nazi past". Deutsche Welle. Martin Buschmann of the small left-wing Animal Protection Party has apologized following revelations he once was a member of Germany's ultranationalist NPD party.
  3. ^ Terkildsen, Thor. "Tierschutzpartei party mandate's". tierschutzpartei. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen". Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz (in German). Retrieved 2021-09-25.
  5. ^ Bundesergebnis Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Nach der Wahl: Ergebnis Tierschutzpartei Europawahl 2019". Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz (in German). 2019-05-27. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  7. ^ "NPD-Vergangenheit: EU-Abgeordneter Martin Buschmann verlässt Linksfraktion". spiegel.de (in German). 28 January 2020.
  8. ^ "2021 Federal Election". 27 August 2021.
  9. ^ Edmundts, Corinna (7 May 2024). "Wie die Parteien die Sicherheit der EU wahren wollen". Tagesschau (in German).
  10. ^ "Unsere Mandate". 27 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Mitglieder". Bezirk Oberbayern (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  12. ^ Everding, Sebastian (2023-07-30). "Aus NRW für das Europäische Parlament". PARTEI MENSCH UMWELT TIERSCHUTZ (in German). Retrieved 2024-06-10.
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