German State Elections, 2012

[Phoenix]

Germany is a federation of 16 states, and two of these states will be having state elections in 2012. Rather than creating a new thread for each of the state's respective elections, I have decided it would be prudent to have one thread to cover all of the German state elections in 2012. The two largest political parties are the centre-right (centre-left by normal standards) Christian Democratic Union (CSU in Bavaria) and the centre-left (far-left by normal standards) Social Democratic Party of Germany; both of these parties support the European Union. The National Democratic Party is a nationalist party that is opposed to immigration by "non-ethnic Germans" and hopes to restore the "Greater German Empire," consisting primarily of lands formerly held by the Holy Roman Empire and German Empire. Die Linke (or "The Left") is a democratic socialist organization, founded by members of the former Socialist Unity Party, which was the ruling communist party in East Germany. The Republicans are a conservative party that gathers much of it's support from conservatives and eurosceptics who believe that the Christian Democratic Union has moved too far to the left and shows too much support for the European Union. There are several other parties competing in the elections, with some parties only being active in certain states.

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Alliance '90/The Greens

Green Agenda, Socialism, Pro-EU

Christian Democratic Union / Christian Social Union of Bavaria

Liberal Conservatism, Christian Democracy, Pro-EU

Citizens in Rage

Conservatism, Populism

Die Linke

Democratic Socialism, Pro-EU

Ecological Democratic Party

Ecologism, Social Conservatism

Freedom – Civil Rights Party for More Freedom and Democracy

Classical Liberalism, Conservatism, Anti-Islamification, Populism

Free Democratic Party

Classical Liberalism

German Communist Party

Communism, Marxism–Leninism

German People's Union

German Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism, Pan-Germanism, Third Position, Populism

National Democratic Party of Germany

German nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism, Pan-Germanism

Pirate Party Germany

Copyright Reform, Socialism

Pro Germany Citizens' Movement

Conservatism, Populism

Social Democratic Party of Germany

Social Democracy, Socialism, Pro-EU

The Republicans

National Conservatism, Euroscepticism, Populism