We Citizens (Germany)
We Citizens Wir Bürger | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | WB |
| Chairman | Jürgen Joost |
| Founder | Bernd Lucke |
| Founded | 19 July 2015 |
| Split from | Alternative for Germany |
| Membership (2015) | 2,000 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
| European affiliation | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
| Bundestag | 0 / 630 (0%) |
| European Parliament | 0 / 96 (0%) |
| State Parliaments | 0 / 1,855 |
| Website | |
| lkr.de | |
We Citizens (German: Wir Bürger, WB) is a political party in Germany. Formerly Liberal Conservative Reformers (German: Liberal-Konservative Reformer, LKR), it was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA.
The party was established in July 2015 as a split from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) led by former AfD spokesman Bernd Lucke. It was founded as the Alliance for Progress and Renewal (German: Allianz für Fortschritt und Aufbruch, ALFA), but changed its name in November 2016 after litigation with the anti-abortion organization "Aktion Lebensrecht für Alle" (Action Right to Life for All) which uses the same acronym.
The party was initially represented by five MEPs in the European Parliament (as members of the European Conservatives and Reformists group) and three members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen due to their formal withdrawal from the AfD. In September 2018, all its MEPs but Lucke left the party. In the 2019 European Elections and the Bremen state election on the same day, LKR lost all its remaining seats in the European Parliament and Bremen.