Basic Income Alliance

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| headquarters = Driesener Straße 10
10439 Berlin, Germany

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The Basic Income Alliance ({{langx|de|Bündnis Grundeinkommen}}, abbreviated BGE) is a German single-issue political party that advocates for an unconditional basic income.{{Cite news |last= Siedenberg |first= Sven |title= Susanne Wiest: Die Parteivorsitzende |newspaper= Die Zeit |location= Hamburg |date= 25 May 2017 |url= http://www.zeit.de/2017/22/susanne-wiest-bedingungsloses-grundeinkommen}} It was founded in September 2016 in Munich.{{cite news |title= Bündnis Grundeinkommen warnt: Wir befinden uns in einer parlamentarischen Krise |last= Heinrich |first= Ronald |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.de/ronald-heinrich/bedingungsloses-grundeinkommen-grundgehalt-grundversorgung_b_12388346.html |date= 8 October 2016 |access-date= 29 September 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190118102647/https://www.huffingtonpost.de/ronald-heinrich/bedingungsloses-grundeinkommen-grundgehalt-grundversorgung_b_12388346.html |archive-date= 18 January 2019 |url-status= dead }} The Basic Income Alliance gained 97,539 votes at the German federal election 2017 and reached 0.2%.

Overview

The Basic Income Alliance sees an unconditional basic income as a central possibility to counteract what it sees as a widening income gap. Technical progress, the automation of production processes, the resulting unemployment and low-paid gainful employment lead to a division in society that must be overcome in order to maintain social peace.

Election results

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Election

! Chamber

! Votes

! Vote %

!Seats

2017 Saarland state election

| State Landtag

| style="text-align: left;"| 286

| {{Increase}} 0.1%

| 0

2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election

| State Landtag

| style="text-align: left;"| 5,260

| {{Increase}} 0.1%

| 0

2017 German federal election

| Bundestag

| style="text-align: right;"| 97,539{{cite web |url=https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2017/ergebnisse/bund-99.html |title=Bundestag election 2017, Result table, Final result |publisher=Federal Returning Officer |access-date=27 May 2019}}

| {{Increase}} 0.2%

| 0

2017 Lower Saxony state election

| State Landtag

| style="text-align: left;"| 5,125

| {{Increase}} 0.1%

| 0

2019 European Parliament election

| European Parliament

| style="text-align: right;"| 40,834{{cite web |url=https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/europawahlen/2019/ergebnisse/bund-99.html |title=European Parliament election 2019, Result table, Provisional result |publisher=Federal Returning Officer |access-date=27 May 2019}}

| {{Increase}} 0.1%

| 0

2019 Bremen state election

| Bürgerschaft of Bremen

| style="text-align: left;"| 5,939{{cite web |url=http://www.wahlen-bremen.de/Wahlen/2019_05_26/04010000/html5/Buergerschaft_Bremen_22_Kreis_Land_Bremen.html |title=Bürgerschaftswahl Land Bremen, Result table, Provisional result |publisher=State Returning Officer |access-date=1 June 2019 |language=German}}

| {{Increase}} 0.4%

| 0

2019 Thuringia state election

| Landtag of Thuringia

| style="text-align: left;"| 2,700

| {{Increase}} 0.2%

| 0

Other "basic income parties"

There are a number of other political parties in other countries that are formed solely around a universal basic income proposal. These include:

  • Basinkomstpartiet, Sweden
  • The Basic Income Party, Korea (Korean: 기본소득당; Hanja: 基本所得黨)
  • The Base (Dutch: De Basis)

Other political parties also include universal basic income among their policies but do not exclusively focus on it.

See also

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