Open Letter to the FDP Federal President Dr. Guido Westerwelle, MP
22nd February 2011
fruitless after 24 years of attempts: The commitment is not enough! We demand a quota of 40 percent women in all committees of the Free Democratic Party!
Dear Dr. Westerwelle
the FDP has a problem - too few women!
We, the undersigned members of the "circle Spree - liberal women a quota," the National Association of Liberal Women eV and the FDP welcomed the Federal Executive Board decision dated 7 February 2011 "New Opportunities for Women -. Tapping potentials, achieve fairness" We miss it, but any binding commitment to a specific increase in the proportion of women in the bodies of the FDP.
We note: Since 1987, our party repeatedly called voluntary commitments to increase the proportion of women in committees and parliaments. But since then the proportion of women dropping steadily. We do not see that further Generation of liberal-minded women declining participation opportunities found there.
The female offspring will be discouraged even at elections to local and county boards of elections and delegates and pushed aside by men. Examples are numerous. Originally, liberal-minded voters in this way find less and less liberal role models, arouse their interest and with whom they can identify. As a result, they turn away from us.
We note: Those who reject female rates must demonstrate practical and effective alternatives. Those we miss, because the evidence that there is no fixed requirements in the FDP, the party so far been guilty. Because it is probably that dimap according to a survey by Infratest 52 percent of FDP voters are FOR the female rate (see World on Sunday 13 February 2011).
We note: In the last 24 years of voluntary invocation of the proportion of women among the members of decline. In 1987, he was still 25 percent in 2003, it stood at 23 percent but has since fallen to 22 percent. 30 years ago, the Free Democratic Party was with her women at the head of the German parties, now we have become the rear. When the election results is clear.
Mixed teams are not just a question of justice, they are also a great chance in the competition between parties with each other. Our competitors have been consulted. Many of us liberal women have long, very long believed that only decides the qualification. That has unfortunately proved to be false.
We note: There are already many rates in the FDP - "elector lists," the district lists, country lists of district proportional representation, youth rates, job quotas, etc. In all these areas it held unchallenged for democratically desirable and liberal.
The Berliner Morgenpost wrote in an editorial on 31 January 2011 to the unanimous decision of the Liberal women's quota in Berlin: "So far no one had a better idea of how to . Would prevent the male dominance of Germany, at a disadvantage, as it is for the FDP ... in the Berlin state government is already "
Therefore we demand: more female role models, more participation opportunities for women in the FDP by the introduction of a quota 40 percent women in all committees of the party.
With regards
liberal members of the "circle Spree - Liberal women a quota"
and other supporters and supporters
Carola von Braun
coordinator of the "Spree Group"
founding chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
former state chairman FDP Berlin
Dr. Barbara Bludau
founding member LIBERAL WOMEN eV
Doris Buchholz
national chair LIBERAL WOMEN
state chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Saarland
Gabriele Heise
district chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Stuttgart
former state chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Dr. Frauke Jung-Lindemann
state chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Dr. Silvana Koch-Mehrin
MEP Vice-President of the European Parliament Chairman
FDP in the European Parliament
Sibylle Laurischk MP
Former National Chairman LIBERAL WOMEN
Ina Lenke MdB aD
Former National Chairman LIBERALS WOMEN
Susanne Manstein
State Executive Committee LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Gesine Meissner MEP
FDP Member of the European Parliament
Petra Müller MdB
state chairman LIBERAL WOMEN NRW
Eva Parbs
Deputy National Chairman LIBERAL WOMEN
state chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Hamburg
Brigitte Pöpel
Deputy National Chairman LIBERAL WOMEN
state chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Hessen
Dr. Birgit Reinemund MP
Deputy National Chairman LIBERAL WOMEN
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen, former Senator
former Deputy National Chairman FDP
Former General Secretary of the FDP
Dr. Irmgard Schwaetzer
founding chairman and honorary chairman
the LIBERAL WOMEN eV
former Federal Minister
Mathia Woodpecker Habbel
State Executive Committee FDP Berlin
Alexandra Thein MEP
Vice Chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Hanaa El-Hussein
State Executive Committee LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Ursula von Langermann
LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Antje Pieper
counsel WDR aD
media Councillor Berlin-Brandenburg aD
LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Dr. Petra Weckel
State Executive Committee LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin
Helga Witt-Kronshage
Vice President, European Federalism Academy LIBERAL WOMEN Berlin eV
Rita Fromm MdB aD
Chairman FDP in the local council chairman Karlsruhe
LIBERAL WOMEN Mittelbaden
Ursula Thümler
Ehem. Chairman of National Women's Council of Lower Saxony eV
founding chairman and
honorary chairman LIBERAL WOMEN Niedersachsen
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