The Party of Bible-abiding Christians (german: Partei Bibeltreuer Christen, PBC) was a

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minor

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. It was founded in 1989 during a convent of the Federation of Pentecostal Churches to serve as political arm of the

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in Germany. It was against

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and legality of

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. It supported a reference to God in the

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and it strongly supported

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. In March 2015, the PBC merged with the

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(AUF) into the

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. Most members were from

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and were members or sympathizers of what Germans call "Freikirche" (

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), i.e., Protestants from

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and Charismatic sects, which are not affiliated with the large Lutheran

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. The party's success, however, was very limited on the federal and state levels of government because it never reached the "5% hurdle" of votes cast necessary to get into the parliaments in Germany's system of

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. In the last federal election the PBC participated (2013), the party achieved 0.0 percent of votes. (Official election results in Germany are rounded to one digit behind the decimal point, which results in parties with less than 0.05 of votes being listed with an official result of 0.0 percent.) By contrast, the conservative Christian Democratic Union and

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are powerful political forces in Germany (based on the number of votes and offices held). They differ greatly from the former PBC though in accepting

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and being traditionally close to the

and the

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. The party was a member of the

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(EPCM).

Election results

Federal Parliament (''Bundestag'')

References

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