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| Which is because Die Linke is of course still associated with the SED's taint, because it can't distance itself from its past as the governing party in a dictatorship. However, nonetheless it has gone from one victory to the next, and it seemed likely it would sit in about all state parliaments -- even in conservative Bavaria (where they failed in 2008), but since 2012 they're on the retreat in the west. Its main ideology is mostly still populism and welfare state with little idea how to finance it, though. | Which is because Die Linke is of course still associated with the SED's taint, because it can't distance itself from its past as the governing party in a dictatorship. However, nonetheless it has gone from one victory to the next, and it seemed likely it would sit in about all state parliaments -- even in conservative Bavaria (where they failed in 2008), but since 2012 they're on the retreat in the west. Its main ideology is mostly still populism and welfare state with little idea how to finance it, though. |
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| | Broke apart in 2023/24 when their most popular (and populist) politicians Sahra Wagenknecht and Oskar Lafontaine decided to do their own thing, called... |
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| | == BSW (no official color yet) == |
| | Or in full: Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, in the naming tradition of... Sebastian Kurz and Emmanuel Macron? |
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| === Minor Parties === | === Minor Parties === |
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| The most recent notable example is "Volt", a party which is part of pan-European Volt and wants to implement "Best Practices" (urgh, manager jargon) - if some other EU country had success with some politics, why not copy it? They're represented in several communes. Their color is purple. | The most recent notable example is "Volt", a party which is part of pan-European Volt and wants to implement "Best Practices" (urgh, manager jargon) - if some other EU country had success with some politics, why not copy it? They're represented in several communes. Their color is purple. |
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| Finally, there's the //Freie Wähler// ("free voters") founded in 2009. You see, Germany has had people for long who wanted to do something for their communities without joining those pesky parties. In many communes, they even have a majority, being especially strong in the South. As they became more popular, they decided to become a real party, which wants to give more power to the communes. Since 2010, they even have an organization on federal level. As mentioned below, they're part of a coalition in Bavaria and use orange as a color. Don't confuse them which Austria's right-populist Jörg Haider's BZÖ, which also used orange as a color. (And was nicknamed "Fallobst" [=windfall, fallen down fruits], for it.) | |
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| == Brown Scum == | == Brown Scum == |
| And then there's the recent AfD. Founded in 2013 by various professors of the economy, they may have started being right-libertarian/conservative/euroskeptical/Christian, but since then, the party has moved further and further to the right, sometimes touching with the German equivalent of the alt-right. To the point that several of their former founders left because this development was too much for their taste. Which included Frauke Petry //on the very next day after being elected into the Bundestag in 2017//. Because yes, the party is the first party to the right of the Union which made it into the Bundestag since 1957, with a double-digit result to boot. They're especially strong in the former GDR, in some lands even beyond 20%, in parts of Saxony even the strongest one (currently). | And then there's the recent AfD. Founded in 2013 by various professors of the economy, they may have started being right-libertarian/conservative/euroskeptical/Christian, but since then, the party has moved further and further to the right, sometimes touching with the German equivalent of the alt-right. To the point that several of their former founders left because this development was too much for their taste. Which included Frauke Petry //on the very next day after being elected into the Bundestag in 2017//. Because yes, the party is the first party to the right of the Union which made it into the Bundestag since 1957, with a double-digit result to boot. They're especially strong in the former GDR, in some lands even beyond 20%, in parts of Saxony even the strongest one (currently). |
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| The //whole// party wasn't observed by the //Verfassungsschutz// until 2022 when they were deemed as suspicious, but some members //are//. | The //whole// party wasn't observed by the //Verfassungsschutz// until 2022 when they were deemed as suspicious, but some members //are//. About 30-40% are deemed as suspicious. |
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| | Furthermore, there's the //Freie Wähler// ("free voters") founded in 2009. You see, Germany has had people for long who wanted to do something for their communities without joining those pesky parties. In many communes, they even have a majority, being especially strong in the South. As they became more popular, they decided to become a real party, which wants to give more power to the communes. Since 2010, they even have an organization on federal level. As mentioned below, they're part of a coalition in Bavaria and use orange as a color. Don't confuse them which Austria's right-populist Jörg Haider's BZÖ, which also used orange as a color. (And was nicknamed "Fallobst" [=windfall, fallen down fruits], for it.) |
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| | They're listed here since in 2023, their minister Hubert Aiwanger turned out to have created an extremist flyer when he was in school and denied it, even threatened to go to court, before he had to backtrack. |
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| On a final note, there's the //Europäische Arbeiter-Partei// (European Labor/Workers' Party - it had a Trotskist bend) / //Patrioten für Deutschland// (Patriots for Germany) / //Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität// (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity) or however it's called this decade. See, all of these were/are headed by the same woman, a Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Yes, she's the wife of //that// LaRouche guy who thinks Elizabeth II was running a drug ring. But hey, they have a great idea how to save the economy: Building a maglev connection from Brest via Berlin to Vladivostok! No, make that a world-spanning network of them! | On a final note, there's the //Europäische Arbeiter-Partei// (European Labor/Workers' Party - it had a Trotskist bend) / //Patrioten für Deutschland// (Patriots for Germany) / //Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität// (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity) or however it's called this decade. See, all of these were/are headed by the same woman, a Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Yes, she's the wife of //that// LaRouche guy who thinks Elizabeth II was running a drug ring. But hey, they have a great idea how to save the economy: Building a maglev connection from Brest via Berlin to Vladivostok! No, make that a world-spanning network of them! |
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| == Christian / Conservative parties == | == Christian / Conservative parties == |
| A footnote, pretty much. Most noteworthy are one of if not the oldest parties of Germany, the Zentrum, which was almost-perpetual government party during the Weimar republic (1918/19 - 1932) and the DSU (//Deutsche Soziale Union//) which was part of the last Eastern German government and thought about becoming an eastern CSU for a while. Then, there's the BP (//Bayernpartei//), a seriously secessionist party for, you guessed it, [[Bavaria]]. They aren't openly monarchist, even if AH fans would like that, but they have contacts to Wittelsbach fanclubs. Besides, we have the DP (//Deutsche Partei// -- that is, the new-founded version from 1993), the PBC (//Partei Bibeltreuer Christen//), the AUF (//Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie//), the Bündnis C of the latter two, the CM (//Christliche Mitte//), the Familien-Partei and maybe some we forgot. All of them are or have become hopeless splinter parties, even if the Zentrum is actually represented in the Bundestag again since 2022 when an AfD guy changed camps. The LKR (//Liberal-Konservative Reformer//) of former AfD boss Bernd Lucke joined them after the European elections in 2019. Same thing applies for Frauke Petry who left the AfD to start her own party, //Die Blauen// (the blue ones - yes). Jörg Meuthen, //another// former AfD boss who also quit, hasn't started his own party. Yet. Instead, he joined the Zentrum too, so they're represented in the Euro parliament now as well. | A footnote, pretty much. Most noteworthy are one of if not the oldest parties of Germany, the Zentrum, which was almost-perpetual government party during the Weimar republic (1918/19 - 1932) and the DSU (//Deutsche Soziale Union//) which was part of the last Eastern German government and thought about becoming an eastern CSU for a while. Then, there's the BP (//Bayernpartei//), a seriously secessionist party for, you guessed it, [[Bavaria]]. They aren't openly monarchist, even if AH fans would like that, but they have contacts to Wittelsbach fanclubs. Besides, we have the DP (//Deutsche Partei// -- that is, the new-founded version from 1993), the PBC (//Partei Bibeltreuer Christen//), the AUF (//Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie//), the Bündnis C of the latter two, the CM (//Christliche Mitte//), the Familien-Partei and maybe some we forgot. All of them are or have become hopeless splinter parties, even if the Zentrum is actually represented in the Bundestag again since 2022 when an AfD guy changed camps. The "Wir Bürger", formerly LKR (//Liberal-Konservative Reformer//), formerly ALFA (//Allianz für Fortschritt und Aufbruch//) - stay tuned! - of former AfD boss Bernd Lucke joined them after the European elections in 2019. Meanwhile uniting with similar "Bündnis Deutschland". Same thing applies for Frauke Petry who left the AfD to start her own party, //Die Blauen// (the blue ones - yes). Jörg Meuthen, //another// former AfD boss who also quit, hasn't started his own party. Yet. Instead, he joined the Zentrum too, so they're represented in the Euro parliament now as well. |
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| Oh, and there's the ÖDP (//Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei// -- ecologic-democratic party), which was founded in 1982 by similar people as the Greens. However, they also emphasize family, want parents to receive (more) money from the state ("Erziehungsgehalt" -- a wage for raising kids), and are especially critical about abortion. | Oh, and there's the ÖDP (//Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei// -- ecologic-democratic party), which was founded in 1982 by similar people as the Greens. However, they also emphasize family, want parents to receive (more) money from the state ("Erziehungsgehalt" -- a wage for raising kids), and are especially critical about abortion. |
