Bündnis C - Christians for Germany
Bündnis C – Christen für Deutschland (English: Alliance C - Christians for Germany) is a small fundamentalist christian and compassionate conservative party in the Federal Republic of Germany
History
At the founding party conference in the traditionally conservative town of Fulda in March 2015, the “Party for Labour, Environment and Family” (AUF)and the “Party of Bible-abiding Christians” (PBC) merged to form “Alliance C – Christians for Germany”. Ole Steffes (formerly PBC) and Karin Heepen (formerly AUF) were elected federal chairpeople with equal rights.[1] The party stood for the first time in the state election in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in 2016 and won less than 1% of the votes. In the state election in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 it received just 842 votes, which corresponds to less than 0.1% of the votes. In the local elections in the state of Lower Saxony in 2016, however, the party won a mandate in both the towns of Wedemark and Bad Essen. An attempted candidacy for the 2017 German federal election failed due to a lack of support signatures, so that the party could only put up direct candidates in four constituencies. These achieved results between 0.2% and 0.4% of the votes. In fall of 2018 the member of the European Parliament Arne Gericke joined Alliance C.[2] Gericke was elected for theFamily Party of Germany in 2014 and initially changed to the “Free Voters Party” in mid-2017. Gericke has been an individual member of the “European Christian Political Movement” since 2014, which also includes Alliance C.
Positions
Bündnis C states in its party manifesto that it is guided by Christian ethics and principles that have shaped the free democratic constitutional state. The party advocates "Christian conservative positions in family, social, educational and foreign policy," by which it means in particular the "fight against abortions and positions of gender mainstreaming”. The party considers marriage and family to be the God-given union of man and woman, advocates the introduction of an education salary for parents, and calls for homeschooling as an alternative to compulsory education. The party is committed to strengthening nations and criticizing international and supranational alliances such as the UN and the European Union. It advocates unconditional support for Israel's right to exist.
Christian ideology
Alliance C, according to its own statements, is based on Christian ethics and principles that have shaped the liberal-democratic constitutional State. The party advocates "Christian-conservative positions in family, social, educational and foreign policy", including in particular the "fight against abortions and positions of gender mainstreaming and an idealization of marriage and family as a godly connection of men and women, the introduction of an education salary for parents, the support of homeschooling, a strengthening of the nations and criticism of international and supranational alliances such as the UN and the EU, and unconditional support for Israel's right to exist".
