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Before his political career, Ronald Schill had been a criminal judge at the
Hamburg district court. He was known in the local tabloid press for passing unusually severe sentences and advocating harsher penalties, especially for adolescent delinquents, winning the nickname of "Judge Merciless". Schill
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and was temporarily very successful in
Hamburg, winning 19.4% of the votes in the 2001 state election and joining a coalition government. After the centre-right coalition collapsed and Schill left the party in 2003, it quickly lost support. Attempts to expand to other states or the federal level were
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only reached 0.4% and lost all of its seats, while Schill ran on a joint ticket with the Pro DM party, winning 3.1% of the votes, but also failing to qualify for parliamentary representation. After the election, Mettbach and most of the other members left the party, some of them joining the CDU. The
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December 2003, the federal board of the party removed Schill from his position as chairman of the state party. Schill considered this illegal and ignored the decision, therefore the federal board decided to expel Schill from the party. Consequently, the party's parliamentary group split, the
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supporters launched a political initiative in late 1999 and registered the Party for a Rule of Law
Offensive in July 2000. The party platform and public appearance was strongly focused on the personality of its founder.
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in the United States, especially given that three of the terrorists had lived and studied in
Hamburg. After the election, the new party joined a centre-right coalition with the CDU and the liberal
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The party could not extend its success to other states: In the state elections of
Sachsen-Anhalt 2002 and Bremen 2003, it won 4.4% and 4.5% of the votes respectively, but failed to surmount the
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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
279:(Pro DM) party, as it was considered too similar to the latter's short name. Because of this, the official short name was "Schill", derived from the informal, but commonly used epithet
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was elected federal chairman of the party, while Schill continued to lead the
Hamburg state branch. After a dispute about Schill's state secretary, Hamburg's first mayor
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for parliamentary representation. In other states it only polled around 1%. In the 2002 federal election, the Schill party won only 0.8% of the votes. In Spring 2003,
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