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from the five-percent threshold and might have survived as a regional party. However, the CDU under Helmut Kohl insisted on the unwritten CDU/CSU agreement that the CSU may only run in Bavaria, while all other states are CDU's territory. Many DSU members realised that the party had no future and switched to the CDU. Eventually, DSU achieved 0.2% of nationwide votes, 1.0% in the new states. After this disappointment, the Bavarian CSU reduced its benefits to the DSU, but continued to transfer six-figure sums annually until 1993.
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on 2 December 1990, the Bavarian CSU aimed for a deal with the CDU to save its East German offshoot from irrelevance: If the CDU had abstained from competing in a few constituencies in Saxony and Thuringia, thus winning the DSU at least three "direct mandates", the small party could have been spared
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magazine of Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing, who also attended DSU meetings. The DSU's image was then characterised by financial misconduct, internal squabbles, resignations, and contacts with far-right groups. The cooperation of DSU and CSU was definitely ended after the Spring 1993 party conference,
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as minister of the interior and deputy prime minister. The DSU also held the ministry of economic cooperation, led by Hans-Wilhelm Ebeling. However, both Diestel and Ebeling left the party in June and July 1990, respectively, Diestel joined the CDU a month later. Of all parties in the People's
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Chamber, the DSU was the keenest on a swift reunification of East and West Germany. Its delegates repeatedly proposed a motion for East Germany's "immediate accession" to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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politics, several long-suppressed cultural and political movements (re)emerged, and numerous small parties sprang up. The German Social Union was one of these, then several comprising conservative,
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led to no avail. Nevertheless, the DSU has a loyal following of voters on the local level, especially in some districts of Saxony. In the western states, the party is virtually nonexistent.
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The DSU drifted further towards a nationalistic course, aiming for a position inbetween the centre-right CDU and the far-right
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The party can thus be seen as right-wing (anti-socialistic) national-conservative. It strongly differentiates itself from the
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electoral coalition. After 1990, it fell into insignificance, only holding a few seats on the local level.
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as Germany's eastern border (which was finally laid down in the reunification treaty and the
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Die Neue Rechte und die Berliner Republik: Parallel laufende Wege im Normalisierungsdiskurs
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was accomplished on 3 October 1990, eight DSU People's Chamber deputies entered into the
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elections held in the new states. Electoral coalitions with right-wing parties like the
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In subsequent elections its share of the vote has remained under 1% of the vote in all
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On 5 February 1990, DSU joined the Alliance for Germany together with the centre-right
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of 18 March 1990. The DSU polled 6.3% of the votes cast and 25 seats in the
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had defected from his party after a series of disputes and joined the DSU.
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parliament. It achieved its strongest results in the southern districts of
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Peter-Michael Diestel, DSU frontrunner in the 1990 East German election
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According to its 2006 basic programme, the DSU refers to itself as a
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party. Ideologically, the party's goals are to preserve and uphold
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Franz Josef Strauß: Analytiker – Visionär – Realist
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