page_title: German Freedom Party
section_title: Ideology
hierarchical_section_title: German Freedom Party / Ideology
caption_attribution_description: Partei Die Freiheit Plakat Kommunalwahl 2014
context_page_description: Freedom – Civil Rights Party for More Freedom and Democracy, also known as The Freedom, was a political party in Germany which identified as conservative-liberal or classical liberal party; while the party was described by German mainstream media as right-wing populist, and was known for its criticism of Islam.
  It was founded in October 2010 by Berlin city parliamentarian René Stadtkewitz who had been expelled from the conservative CDU for inviting the Dutch politician and Islam critic Geert Wilders to Berlin. The party seeks the implementation of a direct citizen democracy based on the Swiss model and extensive changes in immigration and integration policy.
context_section_description: Freedom identifies as a conservative-liberal or classical liberal party. Stadtkewitz himself has explained that his party would be more liberal than the FDP, less statist than the SPD and more anti-political establishment than the German Greens.
  Some of their core issues included:
  The introduction of direct citizen democracy based on the Swiss model.
  Tougher measures on crime
  The reduction of immigration to deal with integration issues.
  Support of Israel.
  Stricter social welfare policies.
  Withdrawal from the European Union.
  Combatting the "Islamisation of Germany."
  The program of the party was modeled after the one of the Dutch Party for Freedom, founded and led by Geert Wilders.
  Some German media have variously described the party as right-wing populist, islamophobic, and conservative.
  The party called for critical observation of imams, mosques, and Islamic schools and for a review of Islamic organizations to ensure their compliance with German laws, and condemned efforts to build a parallel legal structure based on sharia.
caption: Campaign poster for the Munich local elections 2014
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