Pforzheim (dpa / lsw) – Breaking traditional structures, officials declare war and address new groups of voters – this is what a new party that the former Porsche works council boss Uwe Hück (58) founded on Saturday with fellow campaigners wants. The “Citizens’ Movement for Progress and Change” wants to run for the first time in the federal election. She wants to allow a wider range of opinions than the traditional parties, but clearly demarcate “against nationalism and the denial of science”, said the top candidate for the federal election, Christoph Mährlein, at the founding meeting in the former furniture center Birkenfeld near Pforzheim.
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According to Mährlein, people should also be reached who have not yet felt represented in politics: “Precarious workers, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, disadvantaged young people, employees, citizens of this country who are not satisfied with the bourgeois parties and who want change.”
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It is not a “Hück party”, assure the founders. The federal chairman is the entrepreneur Sebastian Haase (46 / formerly CDU). Top candidate Mährlein (53) is a lawyer and ex-head of the Pforzheimer SPD district association.
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Hück was elected as party spokesman and vice-chief. The longtime former SPD member left the comrades in December after an internal dispute. The SPD rolled out the red carpet for the eloquent campaigner for workers’ rights after he left Porsche two years ago: The political newcomer was Pforzheim’s top SPD candidate for the local elections – and won the most votes in the city.
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Hück is popular. That has to do with his vita. The former orphan and foster child has worked his way up from a painter at Porsche to a powerful opponent of the car bosses. With his Pforzheim Learning Foundation he has been helping disadvantaged young people for years. For charity projects under the motto “bruises for social purposes”, the former European champion in Thai boxing can also be “punched in the face”.
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Critics accuse him of a one-man show. From the point of view of the Pforzheim SPD member of the Bundestag, Katja Mast, whose job he had ambitions for, Uwe Hück is always only concerned with Uwe Hück. “What he does is an unconditional cry for attention.” But good politics requires perseverance and no greed for headlines. In almost two years of local council, he hadn’t pushed through any project.
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According to the statutes, professional politicians are not welcome in the “citizens’ movement”. “We have to have more courage and, if in doubt, be able to live with being voted out,” said Hück. The party is hoping for more renegades from established parties in the formation of regional associations and wants to bring momentum to politics: “Change is part of democracy.” It is about change and not about “business as usual”. The new party will give the people a voice and will not make friends in politics. “But the people will love us,” said Hück.
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