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The Liberal Democratic Party of East Germany became a bloc party that was increasingly dependent of the dominant Socialist Unity Party. The liberal parties of the three Western zones, on the other hand, merged into the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in December 1948, that became the third major party of West Germany .
The largest by members and parliament seats are the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Germany also has a number of other parties, in recent history most importantly the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Alliance 90/The Greens , The Left , and more ...
The German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei, DDP) was a liberal political party in the Weimar Republic, considered centrist [10] or centre-left. [11] Along with the right-liberal German People's Party ( Deutsche Volkspartei , DVP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933.
Germany's highest court ruled Tuesday that a small far-right party will not get any state funding for the next six years because its values and goals are unconstitutional and aimed at destroying ...
The Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Reich Party are prohibited political parties in Germany.A third party, Die Heimat — formerly known as the National Democratic Party of Germany — is classified as "anti-constitutional" and is disallowed from receiving public campaign funding, though its activities are otherwise unrestricted.
Despite heavy losses since 1990, the SPD is still the largest party in Germany, ahead of the CDU. Although strongly leftist, the SPD was willing to compromise. Only through its support did the governing CDU/CSU pass a denazification law that its coalition partner the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the far-right German Party voted against. [31]
KARLSRUHE/BERLIN Germany (Reuters) -Germany can cut off public funding to the radical right-wing party Die Heimat, the Constitutional Court said on Tuesday in a landmark ruling which stirred up a ...
The party was founded in 1964 as successor to the German Reich Party (German: Deutsche Reichspartei, DRP). Party statements also self-identified the party as Germany's "only significant patriotic force" (2012). [16] On 1 January 2011, the nationalist German People's Union merged with the NPD and the party name of the National Democratic Party ...