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BUESO PARTY ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH IN SAXONY,
CALLS FOR CONTINUED MONDAY DEMONSTRATIONS FOR JOBS

Sept. 20 —"The Christian Democrats' (CDU) loss of more than 15% of their vote, and the frighteningly high results of more than 9% for the German National Party (NPD), are the reckoning for the stubborn and brutal economic austerity politics of the established parties, the CDU and Social Democrats (SPD), expressed at their worst by the Hartz IV law." So stated the press release of the Saxony state organization of the Buergerrechtsbewegung Solidaritaet (BueSo), issued immediately after the state's election results were known on the evening of Sept. 19.

The BueSo in Saxony, in contrast to the major parties, achieved a significant breakthrough. Compared to the 1999 state results, not only did the "full-slate votes" for the BueSo state slate multiply fivefold to 0.5% statewide; but the BueSo's 21 candidates received votes of between 2% and 5% almost all over the state: for example, 2.2% in Aue-Schwarzenberg; 3.6% in Zwickau; in Chemnitz districts, 3.3% and 3.8% respectively; 2.2% in Freiberg; 2.7% in Goerlitz; 2.4% in Kamenz; 3.1% in Dresden; and 5.7% in Mittweida.

The national Chairwoman of the BueSo, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, commented on the voting results: "This notable success proves that we're on the right track. It is a real breakthrough, for which we can thank the LaRouche Youth Movement, and the Monday Demonstrations. The big parties just 'got the bill to pay' for Hartz IV. If they don't change policy, it will get worse for them."

In their election-night declaration, the Saxony BueSo left no doubt of what they intend to do now: "We now need a public debate on the solution to the systemic economic and financial crisis. We need a crash program of creation of productive jobs; that's the only way to defend the general welfare effectively. Support for the general welfare is the constitutional task of government."

The BueSo's press statement recalled the party's central demand both in the Monday Demonstrations which Helga Zepp-LaRouche catalyzed, beginning in Leipzig in early July, and in the election campaign: 200 billion euros annual investment for the creation of 8 million productive jobs. "What the BueSo laid out as the program for the Saxony fourth state parliament election, is and remains the agenda."

The statement closed with an appeal to the political leaders of those parties newly punished by the election: "The message is clear: Take up this agenda, start over again to serve the people of this state, instead of trying to prop up a bankrupt system for a little longer at the expense of the common good. If you don't do that, there will be bigger and worse election results awaiting you.'