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South Schleswig Voters' Association
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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.[3][4]
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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 (1948-06-30) |
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] |
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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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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.[2] 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).[3] 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]