Law and Order Offensive Party
- Law and Order Offensive Party
The Law and Order Offensive Party ( _de. Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive), short form "Offensive D" (the "D" means "Deutschland"/"Germany") was a minor political party in Germany. It was founded in July 2000 by Hamburg judge Ronald Schill. It wished to call itself "PRO" but was forbidden from doing so after a judicial complaint by the Pro Deutsche Mitte party. Because of this the official short form was "Schill" and the party called itself "Schill-Partei" (Schill Party) 2000-2003, after its founder. The policies of the party were right-populist.
In the 2001 elections to the Hamburg state parliament it came third and received 19.4% of votes/25 members.[Citation |title=Hamburger Wahlergebnisse seit 1965 |url=http://www.statistik-nord.de/fileadmin/wahldb/index.php |publisher=Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein |accessdate=2008-09-26 |author=Search database for Hamburg state elections de icon] It went into coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) which broke down in August 2003 after CDU mayor Ole von Beust accused Schill of extortion.][Citation |url=http://www.citymayors.com/politics/hamburg_election.html |title=Mayor von Beust to govern alone after victory in Hamburg election |accessdate=2008-09-26 |author=Staff: (source: Deutsche Welle) |publisher=www.citymayors.com | publication-date =2004 |date= ] ]In December 2003 the party decided to expel Schill. In the 2004 Hamburg elections the party under the new leader Mario Mettbach only reached 0.4% and did not qualify for seats.[ After the election Mettbach and most of the other members left the party, some of them joining the CDU. The members who hadn't left elected a new leader and changed their name to "Offensive D". Under that name, they came in last at the 2005 German federal election, polling 3,338 out of over 47 million votes. ]The party dissolved due to poor election results and financial problems in September 2007, having lost several leading figures and entire state groups to other right-wing parties such as the Centre Party, the DVU or the NPD.
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