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This is a list of political parties in Germany.

The Parliament of Germany has a plurality system of parties, with two major parties, the Social Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union (with its sister party, the Christian Social Union in the same parliamentary group). Furthermore, it has three minor parties, the Free Democratic Party, The Left, and Alliance '90/The Greens. The federal government of Germany always consists of a coalition made up of one of the two major parties with one of the three minor parties represented in the Parliament of Germany.

The parties

The following parties currently participate in the German parliament, the Bundestag, sorted by the number of seats (refer to the following links for details):

Name (English) Name (German) Abbr. Leader Ideology Position International organizations Votes (2005) Seats in Bundestag Notes
Social Democratic Party Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SPD Franz Müntefering Social democracy centre-left Socialist International 34.2% 222
Christian Democratic Union Christlich Demokratische Union CDU Angela Merkel Christian democracy centre Centrist Democrat International and International Democrat Union 27.8% 177 Is part of the common CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag
Free Democratic Party Freie Demokratische Partei FDP Guido Westerwelle (Economic) Liberalism centre-right Liberal International 9.8% 61
The Left DIE LINKE Lothar Bisky and
Oskar Lafontaine 		Democratic Socialism left-wing Party of the European Left 8.7% 53 merger of the The Left Party.PDS and WASG
Alliance '90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen GRÜNE Claudia Roth and
Cem Özdemir 		Green Politics centre-left Global Greens 8.1% 51 merger of Die Grünen and Bündnis 90
Christian Social Union Christlich-Soziale Union CSU Horst Seehofer Christian democracy and conservatism centre-right International Democrat Union 7.4% 46 Is part of the common CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag

Other parties. In addition to those parties that won representation in the Bundestag in 2002, a variety of minor parties won a cumulative total of 3.0% of the vote, down from 5.9% in 1998. 22 other parties were on the ballot in one or more states, but not qualified for representation in the Bundestag. The far-right-wing (eg. neo-Nazi) parties remained fragmented and ineffectual at the national level.

Minor parties

More than 0.1% of the vote at the last federal elections

Others

Defunct parties

Historical parties

Parties existing before World War II

Defunct parties in (former) West Germany

Parties in (former) East Germany

As a socialist state

During transition

See also

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