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New party to roll up US two-party system – “System is corrupt”

2022-07-28T11:56:14.955Z


New party to roll up US two-party system – “System is corrupt” Created: 07/28/2022, 1:45 p.m By: Franziska Schwarz Storming of the US Capitol: Trump fans who illegally gained entry into the building on January 6, 2021 © Douglas Christian/Imago In the USA, a third party is appearing: the "Forward Party" wants to overcome the political division. Co-founder Andrew Yang castigates the storming of


New party to roll up US two-party system – “System is corrupt”

Created: 07/28/2022, 1:45 p.m

By: Franziska Schwarz

Storming of the US Capitol: Trump fans who illegally gained entry into the building on January 6, 2021 © Douglas Christian/Imago

In the USA, a third party is appearing: the "Forward Party" wants to overcome the political division.

Co-founder Andrew Yang castigates the storming of the US Capitol.

River Vale/New Jersey - The Democratic and Republican parties.

have dominated the US political landscape for a long time.

A newly founded party called "Forward" now wants to recommend itself as a "centrist party".

According to a report by the Reuters news agency, she wants to present her party program on Thursday (July 28).

The new "Forward Party" is headquartered in River Vale, NJ, and is made up of former Democrats and Republicans from these organizations, according to the news agency:

  • Renew America Movement (since 2021, Republican)

  • Serve America Movement (since 2017; Democrats, Republicans and Independent)

  • the original Forward Party (founded in 2021 by Democrat Andrew Yang)

Yang wanted to be mayor of New York in 2021.

"'The exact opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian who likes mathematics': this is the slogan ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang became known for," the newspaper

Welt

wrote about Yang's candidacy at the time.

New party in the USA: not "left", not "right" but "forward"?

What does the Forward Party want?

Citizens trust in their government, a "fair", growing economy and "more say in our future".

Reuters also quotes the founders as saying: The problems of the USA should not be tackled

from the left or the right, but "forward"

.

Yang detailed the plans with fellow co-founders in a op-ed for Wednesday's

Washington Post

, using the storming of the US Capitol as a "dark" example.

"Political extremism is tearing our country apart and the two major parties have not been able to alleviate the crisis," they said.

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Forward Party founder Yang: "The whole system is corrupt"

The three organizations now combined under the "Forward Party" represent "left, right and center of the political spectrum," Yang advertised.

"Some say that third parties spoil everything, but the whole system is already spoiled," he said, referring to the state of US democracy, listing where he felt the majority of Americans found themselves neither on the left nor on the right :

  • gun laws

  • climate policy

  • abortion rights

The Forward Party therefore wants to support preferential elections, an internal party primary election process without party ties and the fight against constituency shifting.

The "nationwide protection" of the right to vote is important to them, according to Yang.

Observers see democracy in the US currently in crisis: Radical Trump supporters had stormed the Capitol in Washington when Joe Biden's victory as the new US President was to be confirmed there. 

(frs)

Source: merkur

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