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Krefeld II – Wesel II
Krefeld II – Wesel II is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 113. It is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, comprising the northern part of the city of Krefeld and the southern part of the district of Wesel. Krefeld II – Wesel II was created for the 2002 federal election. Since 2021, it has been represented by Jan Dieren of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Geography Krefeld II – Wesel II is located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia. As of the 2021 federal election, it comprises the ''Stadtbezirke'' of Nord, Hüls, Mitte, and Ost from the independent city of Krefeld and the municipalities of Moers and Neukirchen-Vluyn Neukirchen-Vluyn () is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km west of Moers, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (, ) in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus it is the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their electorate. The minimum legal number of members of the Bundestag (german: link=no, Mitglieder des Bundestages) is 598; however, due to the system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 736 members, making it the largest Bundestag to date and the largest freely elected national parliamentary chamber in the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 German Federal Election
Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election, and the three parties announced their intention to form a new centre-right government with Angela Merkel as chancellor. Their main opponent, Frank-Walter Steinmeier's Social Democratic Party (SPD), conceded defeat. The Christian Democrats previously governed in coalition with the FDP in most of the 1949–1966 governments of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard and the 1982–1998 governments of Helmut Kohl. Campaign Since the 2005 election, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had governed in a grand coalition with the SPD. However, it was her stated goal to win a majority for CDU/CSU and FDP (the CDU/CSU's traditional coalition partner) in 2009. Foreign minister and Vice-Chancell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Party Of Germany
The Family Party of Germany (german: Familienpartei Deutschlands) is a minor conservative political party in Germany. It has elected members to several local councils in the state of Saarland. In the 2005 federal elections, the Family Party received 0.4% of the popular vote and no seats. The party wants to introduce a right to vote for children carried out by the legal guardians. In the 2014 European parliament elections, the Family Party received 0.69% of the national vote (202,871 votes in total) and elected one Member of the European Parliament - Arne Gericke, however he later went on to join Freie Wähler in June 2017. In the 2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peop ..., the Family Party slightly increased their vote share, reaching th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right (Germany)
The Right – Party for Referendum, Sovereignty and Homeland Protection (german: Die Rechte – Partei für Volksabstimmung, Souveränität und Heimatschutz) is a far-right political party in Germany. History The party was founded in 2012 by the neo-Nazi Christian Worch, along with many members of the German People's Union (DVU) in protest against the merger of their party into the National Democratic Party (NPD). In May 2012 circles of the dissolved DVU announced the establishment of a new party in competition with the NPD was planned. In June 2012, articles of association and the party program were forwarded to the Federal Returning Officer for examination. On 13 October 2012 the second federal convention of The Right took place in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine. In January 2013, the Public Prosecutor's Office in Dortmund concluded that the founding of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Association was insufficient reason for a preliminary investigation. It examined a violation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität
Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (BüSo), or the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, is a German political party founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the widow of U.S. political activist Lyndon LaRouche. The BüSo is part of the worldwide LaRouche movement which, according to the ''Berliner Zeitung'', operates in Germany as the Schiller Institute, the LaRouche Youth Movement, and the BüSo. The newspaper wrote in 2007 that the movement had around 300 followers in Germany at that time.Nordhausen, Frank"A Mother's Investigations" ''Berliner Zeitung'', April 4, 2007, page 3. The BüSo is the third in a series of small parties founded in Germany by the movement. The earlier two, now defunct, were the ''Europäische Arbeiterpartei'' (the European Labor Party), which was active in the 1970s and early 1980s and still exists in some Scandinavian countries, and the ''Patrioten für Deutschland'' (Patriots for Germany), active during the mid 1980s to early 1990s. Federal state Associations Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Reason
The Party of Reason (german: Partei der Vernunft, PDV) is a libertarian political party in Germany founded in 2009 by Oliver Janich. The party's policies are based on the Austrian School of economics. It campaigns for libertarian positions, including a minimal state, and free markets. In September 2013, the PDV, together with libertarian parties from Spain ( Party of Individual Freedom), France ( Liberal Democratic Party) and the Netherlands (Libertarian Party) signed the Utrecht Declaration and Covenant of European Classical Liberal and Libertarian Parties, establishing the European Party for Individual Liberty (EPIL). Elections In 2011, the PDV participated in the local elections in Lower Saxony, winning one seat in the Flecken Harsefeld municipal council, two seats in the Samtgemeinde Harsefeld municipal council, and a further seat in the Bremervörde municipal council. Harald Ebert, member of the City council of Erding, and former member of the Free Democratic Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro Germany Citizens' Movement
The Pro Germany Citizens' Movement (german: Bürgerbewegung pro Deutschland) was a far-right political party in Germany. It was founded in Cologne on 20 January 2005 after Pro Cologne members had been elected to the Cologne City Council. Manfred Rouhs, treasurer of the Pro Cologne movement and former candidate of the German League for People and Homeland and the National Democratic Party of Germany, was elected its first chairman. The federal party convent decided at its ninth ordinary meeting in Wuppertal on 11 November 2017 to dissolve the party. The party was linked to the citizens' movements Pro Cologne and Pro NRW that are only active in the city of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, respectively. Program The party advocated law and order; lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12 years of age; deportation of illegal immigrants, and the segregation of students with insufficient German language proficiency. It was critical of multi-national corpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Equality Party (Germany)
The Socialist Equality Party (german: Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, SGP) is a minor Trotskyist political party in Germany. History It was founded in 1971 as the Federation of Socialist Workers () by West German supporters of Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League and was renamed the Party for Social Equality, Section of the Fourth International (, PSG) in 1997. On 18–19 February 2017, the party adopted its present name. Ideology The party sees itself as the German section of the Fourth International in the tradition of Leon Trotsky.PSG''Fragen an die Partei für Soziale Gleichheit'' The international umbrella group of the party is the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).World Socialist Web Site''Wer ist das IKVI?'' It has contacts to other member parties of the ICFI in England, the US, Sri Lanka, France, Canada and Australia. The SGP is critical of trade unions (which it views as merely a tool of the labour aristocracy), social democrats, and Stali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Humanists
The Party of Humanists () is a minor political party in Germany that first participated in the 2017 federal election. Party platform The underlying ideology is evolutionary humanism. The core themes of the Humanist Party are science and education, the right of self-determination of the individual, and secularization. For example, the party supports the liberal and self-responsible use of drugs, supports legal voluntary euthanasia and is against circumcision of children. The party also supports the implementation of universal basic income. Currently, the Party of Humanists is the only party in Germany that specifically targets non-religious people, freethinkers, and atheists as voters. Programme Health and science * Compulsary health insurance should only cover evidence based medicine, not pseudomedicine such as homeopathy * Legalization of active euthanasia under specific circumstances * Legalization of all drugs, but only for adults and with more prevention measu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partei Für Gesundheitsforschung
The Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research (german: Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung; formerly ''Party for Health Research'' (german: Partei für Gesundheitsforschung)) is a single-issue political party in Germany that seeks to accelerate the development of medicine to reverse the aging process. Political positions The Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research is a single-issue political party in Germany founded in 2015 with the goal of accelerating the development of regenerative medicine against aging, enabling people to live indefinitely long healthy lives. According to the party, their purpose is to prevent the suffering caused by age-related disease and death. Besides that, the party also highlights the economic benefit of curing aging, as the costs for age-related illness and care would be eliminated. The party seeks to increase the number and size of pertinent research facilities, and to expand education and training of professionals in those field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-Partei3
V-Partei3, known officially as V-Partei³ – Party for Change, Vegetarians and Vegans (german: V-Partei³ – Partei für Veränderung, Vegetarier und Veganer), is a German political party that was founded in April 2016 in Munich, Bavaria. The principal focus of the party is animal rights and environmentalism. It is the sole political party in Germany devoted to encouraging the adoption of a plant-based diet. The party took part in the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections in 2017, and received 10,013 votes or 0.12% of the vote, far below the 5% threshold required to enter the State Landtag. Notable members of the party were actress Barbara Rütting and Axel Ritt, guitarist of the band Grave Digger, who joined in May 2017. Party program In the party manifesto created for the 2017 Bundestag elections focuses on improving animal welfare conditions in Germany and changing existing government policies so that Germany reduces its consumption of meat. The manifesto focuses on 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democracy In Motion
Democracy in Motion (german: Demokratie in Bewegung, ) is a minor party in Germany. The basis for the party's founding was a petition on change.org, in which petitioners promised to run as a party in September 2017 at the federal election if the petition reached at least 100,000 signatures, which it reached on 20 July 2017. After this was accomplished, the party 'Democracy in Motion' was established on 29 April 2017 in Berlin. Content profile The Party Platform outlines four core values: # Democracy, participation, transparency # Justice on social, political, economic, and environmental issues # Cosmopolitanism and diversity # Future-oriented sustainabilityParty Platform (self-presentation on the website, accessed on 18 August 2017) Policy was adopted at the 2nd Federal Party Congress on 27 August 2017 in Cologne in accordance to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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