Back Partit Reformista d'Alternativa Democràtica Catalan Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei German Εναλλακτικό Δημοκρατικό Μεταρρυθμιστικό Κόμμα Greek Partido Alternativo de la Reforma Democrática Spanish Parti réformiste d'alternative démocratique French Partito Riformista di Alternativa Democratica Italian 대안민주개혁당 Korean Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei LB Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei Dutch Alternatywna Demokratyczna Partia Reform Polish
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 | |
| Political position | Right-wing[11] to far-right[12][contradictory] |
| Regional affiliation | Christian Group[13] |
| European affiliation | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists |
| Colours | Red, white, and blue |
| Chamber of Deputies | 5 / 60 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 6 |
| Local councils | 9 / 722 |
| Benelux Parliament | 1 / 7 |
| Website | |
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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[4][14] and mildly populist[15] political party in Luxembourg.[3] It has five seats in the sixty-seat Chamber of Deputies, making it the fourth-largest party. In 2024, the party received its first seat in the European Parliament.[16]
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.[17] 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,[18] before falling back to four today. Its significance on a national level makes it the most successful pensioners' party in western Europe.[19]
Political success has required the ADR to develop positions on all matters of public policy, developing an anti-establishment,[19] conservative platform. It has adopted economic liberalism, filling a gap vacated by the Democratic Party.[20] It is the largest party in Luxembourg to take a Euro-realist/softly Eurosceptic line,[21] 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.[22][23][24][25]
- ^ "Nationalkommitee". adr.lu. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Warnand, Julien (9 October 2018). "Luxembourg". Saarbrücker Zeitung. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Luxembourg". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ a b "All about the Alternativ Demokratësch Reformpartei (ADR)". 11 December 2017.
- ^ 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".
- ^ [6][7]
- ^ "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.
- ^ [9][10]
- ^ 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".
- ^ "Key points: ADR enters Brussels, while the Greens hold onto one seat". today.rtl.lu. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ 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).