New Movement for the Future (German: Neue Bewegung für die Zukunft, Turkish: Gelecek için Yeni Hareket, Serbo-Croatian: Novi pokret za budućnost) is an Austrian migrant workers' movement established in 1999, and since 2017 a namesake minor Austrian political party. It has been taking part to the Vorarlberg Austrian Chamber of Labour's elections since 1999.
It was officially registered as a party on 1 January 2017, and was founded by Turkish migrants."Wir sind keine Türkenpartei": Migrantenliste NBZ will künftig österreichweit bei Wahlen antreten
Results at Vorarlberg Austrian Chamber of Labour's elections 1999Ergebnis der AK-Wahl 2004, 17 October 2008 2004 2009Ergebnis der AK-Wahl 2009, 9 February 2009 2014Wahlergebnisse 2014 3,200 votes 3,053 votes 2,874 votes 2,383 votes 7.2% 6.6% 6.08% 5.48% 5 seats 4 seats 4 seats 4 seats
Whereas the NBZ was the sole list with Turkish candidates in 1999, others did so in 2004 and the number of non-NBZ Turks elected rose from 4 in 2009 (1 Conservative, 1 Social Democrat, 1 Liberal, 1 Green) to 5 in 2014 (1 Social Democrat, 1 Liberal, 3 Greens).
2009 Landtag elections in Vorarlberg A NBZ list was announced to take part in the 2009 Vorarlberg state election, 2009, but this led to such a controversy that its leader, Adnan Dincer,born on December 1, 1968, in Turkey announced on 2 April 2009 the decision not to take part as such in these elections."NBZ tritt nicht bei Landtagswahl an", Österreichischer Rundfunk Vorarlberg, 2 April 2009
Finally, several NBZ candidates were included on a common list including five minor parties, including the Communist Party of Austria, Die Gsiberger (GSI)."Erste Partei: "Gsiberger" eröffnen Wahlkampf", Österreichischer Rundfunk Vorarlberg, 25 July 2009 Gsiberger is Vorarlberg's inhabitants nickname given by other Austrians because of some peculiar expression in their Alemannic (not Austro-Bavarian as in other parts of Austria) dialect. The anticorruption Euro-MP Hans-Peter Martin supported this list "in order to counter parties oligopoly". "Die Gsiberger" got 3,042 votes (1.74%) and no representative."Landtagswahl 2009", Österreichischer Rundfunk Vorarlberg, 20 September 2009
Political ideology The party claims to be for Austrians of a Turkish immigrant background, but insists that it is not purely Turkish or Islamic. The party supports Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and opposed the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt.
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