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South Schleswig Voters' Association German: Südschleswigscher Wählerverband Danish: Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforening North Frisian: Söödschlaswiksche Wäälerferbånd | |
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| Abbreviation | SSW |
| Chairman | Christian Dirschauer |
| Vice Chairmen | Sybilla Lena Nitsch, Svend Wippich |
| National Secretary | Martin Lorenzen |
| Founded | 30 June 1948 |
| Split from | South Schleswig Association |
| Headquarters | Norderstraße 76 24939 Flensburg |
| Newspaper | Stimme des Nordens |
| Youth wing | Youth in the SSW |
| Membership (2020) | 3,216[1] |
| Ideology | |
| European affiliation | European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Blue Yellow |
| Bundestag (Schleswig-Holstein seats) | 1 / 35 |
| Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | 4 / 69 |
| Kiel City Council | 4 / 49 |
| Flensburg City Council | 11 / 43 |
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The South Schleswig Voters' Association[nb 1] (German: Südschleswigscher Wählerverband, SSW; Danish: Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforening, SSV) is a regionalist political party in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The party represents the Danish and Frisian minorities of the state.[2][3]
As a party representing a national minority, the SSW declines to identify itself with a scale of left–right politics but models its policies on the Nordic model, which often means favouring a strong welfare state, while favouring a more free-market labour policy than the German social market economy model.[4] In 2011 it was defined as socially liberal by author José Magone.[4] The SSW is represented in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein and several regional and municipal councils. The party contested federal elections in Germany until 1961, before returning in 2021,[5] where it obtained one seat.
As a party for the national Danish minority in Southern Schleswig, the SSW is not subject to the general requirement of passing a 5% vote threshold to gain proportional seats in either the state parliament (Landtag) or the federal German parliament (Bundestag).[2] In the most recent 2022 state election, the SSW received 5.7% of the votes and four seats. In the 2021 federal elections, the SSW stood in a federal election for the first time since 1961; the official final result gave them one seat, making Stefan Seidler a Member of Parliament, their first such member since the 1953 federal elections.[6]
- ^ "Unterrichtung durch die Präsidentin des Deutschen Bundestages" (PDF). Deutscher Bundestag. 20 December 2021. p. 44.
Am 31. Dezember des Rechnungsjahres waren 3.216 Personen Mitglieder der Partei. (On 31 December of the financial year, 3,216 people were members of the party.)
- ^ a b Heiko F. Marten (2015). "Parliamentary Structures and Their Impact on Empowering Minority Language Communities". In Heiko F. Marten; Michael Reißler; Janne Saarikivi; Reetta Toivanen (eds.). Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union: Comparative Studies on Equality and Diversity. Springer. p. 264. ISBN 978-3-319-10455-3.
- ^ Jörg Mathias; Anne Stevens (2012). "Regions and Regional Politics in Europe". In Richard Sakwa; Anne Stevens (eds.). Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-230-36719-7.
- ^ a b José Magone (2011). Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction. Routledge. p. 392.
- ^ "Der SSW will den Minderheiten und der Region eine Stimme in Berlin geben". ssw.de (in German). Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ^ mdr.de. "Mit 0,1 Prozent: Dänen-Partei Südschleswigscher Wählerverband wieder im Bundestag". mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 22 October 2021.
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