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– When we apply for project grants for the Danish minority, for example, there is always a castle in Bavaria that needs to be renovated and we don’t get an audience for our needs. For those who know a small minority in the north, on the Danish border, says Flemming Meyer, chairman of the Danish minority party Südschleswigscher Wählerverband, SSW.
The party now wants to change that lack of knowledge.
Besides Danish The SSW minority also represents the Friesian group found on the islands along the North Sea coast. Once inside the Bundestag, they want to raise minority issues in general and, for example, also draw attention to the Slavic Sorb minority in eastern Germany on the border with Poland.
A concrete demand is also to lift the terrorist stamp of the Kurdish organization PKK, which in Germany is classified as a terrorist group. SSW believes that Kurds living in Germany are stigmatized by the ban.
The special position of the Danish minority in Germany has its roots in a unique referendum a hundred years ago, where the border population was allowed to say which country they wanted to belong to. Germans who still ended up in Denmark and Danes in Germany received special rights as a national minority in each country.
For Danes in Germany it still means today, that his SSW party is exempt from the five percent barrier in elections. In the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament, the party is represented by three seats. In the Bundestag, the party sat alone for a period immediately after World War II.
SSW is fine now. Politically, the party tends to the left and the Greens, and in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament it has also formed a coalition with the Social Democrats and the Greens. In recent state elections, she has also received the votes of many non-Danes. Therefore, it is believed that the around 40,000 votes required to reach a Bundestag term can be obtained.
