EU 2021 German federal election

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The German Bundestag is the representation of the people of the Federal Republic of Germany and, being vested with decisive legislative authority, its most important body. It is composed of representatives of the German people who are elected for four years in general, direct, free, equal and secret elections.

Election date​

The Basic Law specifies the period in which a Bundestag election has to take place (Article 39 para. 1 of the Basic Law). In accordance with that provision, new elections are held between 46 months (at the earliest) and 48 months (at the latest) after the current electoral term has begun. If the electoral term of the Bundestag is terminated early, there have to be new elections within 60 days after the decision has been taken to dissolve the Bundestag. The electoral term of the 19th German Bundestag started on 24 October 2017 with its constituent sitting. Consequently, the date of the election will have to be within the period from Wednesday, 25 August 2021 to Sunday, 24 October 2021. Election day has to be on a Sunday or a public holiday (Section 16 of the Federal Elections Act). As a rule, Bundestag elections should not be conducted during main holiday seasons.

In consultation with the Federal Government, the Federal President has now set the election date for Sunday, 26 September 2021 (see order of the Federal President concerning the 2021 Bundestag election of 8 December 2020 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2769)). Irrespective of the election date, elections to the assemblies of party delegates may, at the earliest, be held 29 months after the electoral term of the Bundestag has begun, this would be from 25 March 2020 for this Bundestag election. Candidates may be elected 32 months after the electoral term has started, this means from 25 June 2020 (Section 21 (3), third sentence, of the Federal Elections Act).

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Current opinion polls around the election. Union (christian democratic party) has been the leading party with Merkel for decades but it looks like it might be dethroned this year. SPD (social democratic party) has been declining as an opposition party though it is still a strong player. Grüne (enviromentalist party) has experienced rapid growth in the past few years and for the first time ever is competing in the big leagues. There are also the FPD (liberal), AfD (nationalist) and Linke (socialist) who will be relevant when a coalition will be formed.

I figured we will need this thread eventually so here it is. I will keep it updated as the election day comes closer.

 

[Dona Morte]

I would welcome the lesson on German political parties. Thank you.

 

[Sanshain]

No matter who wins, the West loses.

 

[Shiversblood]

My prediction is that the German people will vote for Sharia law.

 

[Drkinferno72]

My prediction is that the German people will vote for Sharia law.

Courtesy of frau merkel

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Regardless of the victor, the german people will lose no matter what.

 

[SuperShibuyaFighter]

Krauts are so cucked lol

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Greens are the best since they will bring in the most refugees while dealing with all that nasty coal and nuclear power and thus ensure refugees don't have to deal with nasty Western electrification and all that and can live just like they did back home. Green is the color of Islam for a reason!

 

[whatever I feel like]

I would welcome the lesson on German political parties. Thank you.

Here you go:

Union: The so-called "Union" is a permanent coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union. The CDU is nominally protestant and the CSU is nominally catholic and operates only in Germany's south. Neither is actually religious, their continued separate existence is merely a quirk of history and for the purposes of forming governments they are even allowed to count themselves as one party, much to the SDP's dismay. This party has been "in power" in one way or another for nearly fifteen years now, but spent most of that time in coalition with the socialists and has very little to say ideologically.

This is the party of Merkel and is "Conservative" only in such that the other "normal" parties are even further to the left of it. "Christian Democracy" is a sort of populist ideology that favors social welfare and communal values, without any of those workers rights or people's liberties getting in the way. It seems likely that they will be returned to government again as a coalition partner, the only question is whether they get to be coalition leader and who they end up with. Merkel is finally retiring, press S to spit.


SDP: The Social Democrats. This was, for most of the post WWII era, the leading party in West Germany and kept strong social democracy going long after it fell out of favor in places like the UK. Despite losing its ideological potency it has, along with the CDU/CSU kept a firm centrist, controlling grip on power through long bouts of coalition. According to that wikipedia chart they have a chance at actually being the lead partner in yet another coalition, but they might also be kept out of it by the greens. The SDU is very German in its approach to social justice. Achtung, zu must make mooore macaroni picturez!


FDP: The FDP, Federal Democratic Party, is nominally Germany's version of a classical liberal party. This means that they are statist, like the rest, but also openly love big business. For a lot of their existence they have been kingmakers who help other parties form governing coalitions but the big two have been in bed together for awhile now, leaving these dogs to sleep outside. For most of the FDP's history it has had a very stable voting percentage and role as coalition partner, but their leadership in recent years has been so bad that some people openly speculated as to the sanity of their party leader. They have since righted the ship but are on track to be one of the smallest parties in parliament once again.


Greens: The German Greens have led the way for Green Parties around the world, becoming electorally viable here in the 80s long before they broke through in various English speaking countries and are as crazy as you would expect. Rather shockingly, environmentalism polls so well in Germany that they've actually started winning plurality votes in state/local and EU elections. At this time it is looking even odds that they might actually join Germany's next government at the expense of one of the two traditionally largest parties, though it looks like SDP voters wised up to how ridiculous that is and have returned to their home party in recent weeks.


AFD: A&N's favorite party. The Alternative fur Deutschland is Germany's version of your standard European post-industrial "far right" party. Despite being lambasted for being extremists, some of their positions are a lot closer to the standard American's view on certain issues than any other party. Others however, would find little to no traction on the American right. As with all German parties, they do not give a FUCK about personal freedom, except in so much as it allows them to further their own political views.

In theory, these would be a natural coalition partner for the CDU, but as in most western European countries an unofficial pact to exclude them from office exists. Their existence, and ability to take away a certain number of seats, has thus made it hard for either the CDU/CSU or SDP to form a majority government on its own. They used to regularly grow in prominence every election, but these days the party seems to be more stagnant, it is neither gaining ground nor falling apart. One of these years they will probably break through at the state level somewhere in eastern Germany and finally enter government.

Die Linke: AKA the Left, is an official continuation, though renamed, of the old East German communist party. Under the reunification agreement Die Linke does not need to meet the same nation-wide vote thresholds in order to attain parliamentary representation that other parties do. Thats good for them as their situation has gotten so dire at times that they would have crashed out of the Bundestag altogether if not for this special exception. Over the past ten or so years they have experienced a small revival among "very online" shitheads, though I suspect a lot of them are on the Green train currently. If it weren't for those people this would be a party only for pensioners and would, as Marvin the Martian would say, " be gone in just a few seconds."

 

[byuu]

Should probably be in Happenings instead.

I would welcome the lesson on German political parties. Thank you.

We have the two historically big centre-right and centre-left parties with CDU/CSU (CSU is Bavaria's special snowflake CDU) and SPD. Kind of our Republicans and Democrats or Tories and Labour.
Usually either of those parties forms the government with one small party. But because they have become so unpopular they currently govern together. They do this by hashing out a coalition contract behind closed doors for months that decides on every policy for the next 4 years.

Then you have the two older small parties: The libertarian FDP, preferred partner of the CDU and darling of hotel owners, and the Greens, preferred partner of the SPD and loved by wealthy sandal wearing leftists.

Then you have the two new kids shunned by the other parties above (at least on the federal level):
The left-wing Linke which is a union of an old East German commie party and a party that formed to revolt against the SPD, because they did the direct opposite of social democracy the last time they were in power.
And then you got the right-wing AfD that was originally formed by an euro skeptic right Libertarian who has left long ago and it's mostly an anti-immigration party now. Kinda like UKIP except Sargon never killed it.

Then you have some tiny parties with no chance of getting any seats.
For example NPD (literal nazis), MLPD (literal commies), and DIE PARTEI (a parody party that actually managed to get a seat in the EU parliament).

 

[Stoneheart]

Union (christian democratic party) has been the leading party with Merkel for decades but it looks like it might be dethroned this year.

They are catholic social democrats and their new leader has connections to catholic extremists. they are very antigerman and should be burned for their heresy.

SPD (social democratic party) has been declining as an opposition party though it is still a strong player.

Lutherian social democrats, very corrupt, leaderships has very good conecttions to russia. they are also not in the opposition, but part of the ruling coalition. they are only above 15% because their leader is less of a cuck or retard than the CDU/green leadership.

Grüne (enviromentalist party) has experienced rapid growth in the past few years and for the first time ever is competing in the big leagues.

Peak Globalist cucks, nominated the worst possuble candidate. she has no talent and biden brain...

There are also the FPD (liberal)

classical leadership, wants to deregulate and cut taxes, leadership is a bit strange, a young good looking dude is the face while a trumpian northerner is leading the charge,

AfD (nationalist)

a Strange mix of western Centrists and rural xenophobes, bad leadership and no charisma...
cant be trusted-

and Linke (socialist)

old school eastern bloc commies, with a civil war between the woman that put them over the 5% last time and woke people---

For example NPD (literal nazis)

they are just a normal right wing party. they look and GLOW like Fallout ghouls...

MLPD (literal commies)

Thats mostly a kurdish cover for the PKK. they are not woke at all.

and DIE PARTEI (a parody party that actually managed to get a seat in the EU parliament).

their leader is still in the EU parlament and the rest are celebrities or cucks, their chances are slim.


for our burger friends. dont listen to OP, he sounds like a fag and posts his own article on the farms.

 

[Dona Morte]

So Frau Merkel or Frau Merkel light?

 

[whatever I feel like]

So Frau Merkel or Frau Merkel light?

Neigh, that horse is off to the glue factory.

 

[Snekposter]

So Frau Merkel or Frau Merkel light?

Neigh, that horse is off to the glue factory.

Yeah, she's gone. Stepped down from party leadership years ago, around the same time she said she wasn't seeking reelection as Reichskanzler.

As to the rest, time for me to do what every American does when it comes to time to parliamentary elections, and bay for blood: "Countless parties enter, one coalition that hates itself leaves!"

 

[soy_king]

Here you go:

Union: The so-called "Union" is a permanent coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union. The CDU is nominally protestant and the CSU is nominally catholic and operates only in Germany's south. Neither is actually religious, their continued separate existence is merely a quirk of history and for the purposes of forming governments they are even allowed to count themselves as one party, much to the SDP's dismay. This party has been "in power" in one way or another for nearly fifteen years now, but spent most of that time in coalition with the socialists and has very little to say ideologically.

This is the party of Merkel and is "Conservative" only in such that the other "normal" parties are even further to the left of it. "Christian Democracy" is a sort of populist ideology that favors social welfare and communal values, without any of those workers rights or people's liberties getting in the way. It seems likely that they will be returned to government again as a coalition partner, the only question is whether they get to be coalition leader and who they end up with. Merkel is finally retiring, press S to spit.


SDP: The Social Democrats. This was, for most of the post WWII era, the leading party in West Germany and kept strong social democracy going long after it fell out of favor in places like the UK. Despite losing its ideological potency it has, along with the CDU/CSU kept a firm centrist, controlling grip on power through long bouts of coalition. According to that wikipedia chart they have a chance at actually being the lead partner in yet another coalition, but they might also be kept out of it by the greens. The SDU is very German in its approach to social justice. Achtung, zu must make mooore macaroni picturez!


FDP: The FDP, Federal Democratic Party, is nominally Germany's version of a classical liberal party. This means that they are statist, like the rest, but also openly love big business. For a lot of their existence they have been kingmakers who help other parties form governing coalitions but the big two have been in bed together for awhile now, leaving these dogs to sleep outside. For most of the FDP's history it has had a very stable voting percentage and role as coalition partner, but their leadership in recent years has been so bad that some people openly speculated as to the sanity of their party leader. They have since righted the ship but are on track to be one of the smallest parties in parliament once again.


Greens: The German Greens have led the way for Green Parties around the world, becoming electorally viable here in the 80s long before they broke through in various English speaking countries and are as crazy as you would expect. Rather shockingly, environmentalism polls so well in Germany that they've actually started winning plurality votes in state/local and EU elections. At this time it is looking even odds that they might actually join Germany's next government at the expense of one of the two traditionally largest parties, though it looks like SDP voters wised up to how ridiculous that is and have returned to their home party in recent weeks.


AFD: A&N's favorite party. The Alternative fur Deutschland is Germany's version of your standard European post-industrial "far right" party. Despite being lambasted for being extremists, some of their positions are a lot closer to the standard American's view on certain issues than any other party. Others however, would find little to no traction on the American right. As with all German parties, they do not give a FUCK about personal freedom, except in so much as it allows them to further their own political views.

In theory, these would be a natural coalition partner for the CDU, but as in most western European countries an unofficial pact to exclude them from office exists. Their existence, and ability to take away a certain number of seats, has thus made it hard for either the CDU/CSU or SDP to form a majority government on its own. They used to regularly grow in prominence every election, but these days the party seems to be more stagnant, it is neither gaining ground nor falling apart. One of these years they will probably break through at the state level somewhere in eastern Germany and finally enter government.

Die Linke: AKA the Left, is an official continuation, though renamed, of the old East German communist party. Under the reunification agreement Die Linke does not need to meet the same nation-wide vote thresholds in order to attain parliamentary representation that other parties do. Thats good for them as their situation has gotten so dire at times that they would have crashed out of the Bundestag altogether if not for this special exception. Over the past ten or so years they have experienced a small revival among "very online" shitheads, though I suspect a lot of them are on the Green train currently. If it weren't for those people this would be a party only for pensioners and would, as Marvin the Martian would say, " be gone in just a few seconds."

You forgot about Die Basis, Volt Europa. and Piraten, though tbf, I think everyone else here also has.

 

[Dona Morte]

You forgot about Die Basis, Volt Europa. and Piraten, though tbf, I think everyone else here also has.

Is that like meme parties?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

How much of a balance is there between the parties in Germany?

Here in Burgerland, you pretty much throw your vote away if you don't vote Democrat or Republican.

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

No matter what happens Germany gets more "refugees" who fuck their country.

 

[soy_king]

Is that like meme parties?

Die Basis is a strictly anti Covid lockdown party, and is likely being promoted to siphon off AFD votes.

Volt Europa is literally the party of creating the United States of Europe immediately. they don't even have a German centric aspect, their headquarters is in Brussels.

Die Piraten, or the Pirate Party, is a relic of the bygone days when net neutrality and freedom of information were hot button issues. They won a few seats in 2009 and in some of the state legislatures, but almost immediately lost them and have since been a non existent joke outside of some edgelords, from what I've seen.

 

[Exterminatus]

How much of a balance is there between the parties in Germany?

Here in Burgerland, you pretty much throw your vote away if you don't vote Democrat or Republican.

Taking a look at the Bundestag makeup the CDU (Merkel's party), SPD, and CSU seem to be the top contenders purely based on the number of seats they hold right now.