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Alternative Democratic Reform Party Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei | |
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| Abbreviation | ADR |
| Leader | Alexandra Schoos[1] |
| Founded | 12 May 1987 |
| Split from | Christian Social People's Party[2] |
| Headquarters | 22, rue de l'eau L-1449 Luxembourg |
| Youth wing | Adrenalin |
| Ideology | Social conservatism[3] National conservatism[4] Economic liberalism[4] Soft Euroscepticism[5] Luxembourgish language interests[6][7] Historical: Pensioners' interests |
| Political position | Right-wing[8][9] to far-right[10] |
| Regional affiliation | Christian Group[11] |
| European affiliation | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
| Colours | Red, white, and blue |
| Chamber of Deputies | 5 / 60 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 6 |
| Local councils | 9 / 722 |
| Benelux Parliament | 1 / 7 |
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The Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR; Luxembourgish: Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei, French: Parti réformiste d'alternative démocratique, German: Alternative Demokratische Reformpartei) is a conservative[3][12] and mildly populist[13] political party in Luxembourg.[4] It has five seats in the sixty-seat Chamber of Deputies, making it the fourth-largest party.
The party was founded in 1987, as a single-issue party from demanding equality of state pension provision between civil servants and all other citizens.[14] In the 1989 election, it won four seats, and established itself as a political force. It peaked at seven seats in 1999, due to mistrust of politicians failing to resolve the pensions gap,[15] before falling back to four today. Its significance on a national level makes it the most successful pensioners' party in western Europe.[16]
Political success has required the ADR to develop positions on all matters of public policy, developing an anti-establishment,[16] conservative platform. It has adopted economic liberalism, filling a gap vacated by the Democratic Party.[17] It is the largest party in Luxembourg to take a Euro-realist/softly Eurosceptic line,[18] and is a member of the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe. The ADR wishes to implement Swiss-style direct democracy and advocates and promotes intensely the preservation and use of the Luxembourgish language in state institutions and society.[7] The ADR is most often characterised as being a national-conservative party.[19][20][21][22]
- ^ "Nationalkommitee". adr.lu. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Warnand, Julien (9 October 2018). "Luxembourg". Saarbrücker Zeitung. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ a b "All about the Alternativ Demokratësch Reformpartei (ADR)". 11 December 2017.
- ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Luxembourg". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Dumont, Patrick; Fehlen, Fernand; Kies, Raphaël; Poirier, Philippe (2006). "Les élections législatives et européennes de 2004 au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg" (PDF) (in French). Chamber of Deputies: 220.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "VIDEO: ADR-Kongress: Déi 3 Haaptpilieren: Wuesstem, Lëtzebuerger Sprooch a Famill".
- ^ a b "Lëtzebuerger Sprooch stäerken: ADR: Wichteg Gesetzer och op Lëtzebuergesch".
- ^ "ADR vice-president resigns over Facebook comments". Luxembourg Times. 10 December 2019.
The vice-president of Luxembourg's right-wing party ADR has resigned over comments she made on the foreign ministers' Facebook post on taking refugees from Niger.
- ^ "The Christian Social Party comes out ahead in the general elections in Luxembourg but is not sure to return to office". www.robert-schuman.eu. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ Christopher Cochrane. Support for Far-Right Anti-Immigration Political Parties in Advanced Industrial States: Insiders, Outsiders and Economic Disaffection. Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy.
- ^ "Politieke fracties". Benelux Parliament (in Dutch). Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ Bale, Tim (2021). Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-009-00686-6. OCLC 1256593260.
- ^ "ADR sees jump, coalition sees slump in latest poll".
- ^ Hirsch, Mario (December 1995). "Luxembourg". European Journal of Political Research. 28 (3–4): 415–420. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1995.tb00507.x.
- ^ Dumont et al (2006), p. 71
- ^ a b Hanley, Seán (2007). "Pensioners' parties in Eastern and Western Europe: An Overview and Some Theoretical Propositions" (PDF).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Dumont et al (2006), p. 67
- ^ Steven, Martin (2016). "'Euro-Realism' in the 2014 European Parliament Elections: The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the Democratic Deficit" (PDF). Representation. 52: 1–12. doi:10.1080/00344893.2016.1241821. S2CID 157909222.
- ^ Niedermayer, Oskar; Stöss, Richard; Haas, Melanie (2006). Die Parteiensysteme Westeuropas. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. p. 329. ISBN 978-3531141114.
- ^ van Kessel, Stijn Theodoor (2001). Supply and demand: identifying populist parties in Europe and explaining their electoral performance. Doctoral thesis (DPhil) (PDF) (thesis). University of Sussex. pp. 67–68.
- ^ Camus, Jean-Yves. "Extremism-researcher Camus: "The ADR is not right-wing populist" (Interview). Interviewed by Christoph Bumb & Pol Schock.
- ^ Federspiel, Sophie (October 2016). "Rechts abbiegen oder stehen bleiben? Die politische Orientierung der ADR" (PDF). Forum (366).