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After the FDP, the partner of the CDU, left the parliament, Merkel created a "grand coalition" with the SPD.
After the FDP, the partner of the CDU, left the parliament, Merkel created a "grand coalition" with the SPD.
====Die Linke (The Left)====
====Green Party====
:''Main article:'' [[Alliance '90/The Greens]]
In the late 1970s, environmentalists organized politically as the [[Green party]]. Opposition to nuclear power, military power, and certain aspects of highly industrialized society were principal campaign issues, however those core principals were abandoned when the Greens, in coalition with SPD under the Scholz regime, became the chief warmongering party of European globalists and the [[WEF]].
. In the December 1990 all-German elections, the Greens merged with the Eastern German Alliance 90, a loose grouping of civil rights activists with diverse political views. The Greens joined a federal government for the first time in 1998, forming a coalition with the SPD.
In 2012 they took advantage of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan, allowing them to form the government of the state of Baden-Württemberg in a coalition with the SPD, which is the smaller partner this time.
====Free Democratic Party (FDP)====
====Free Democratic Party (FDP)====
:''Main article:'' [[Free Democratic Party]]
:''Main article:'' [[Free Democratic Party]]
The FDP has traditionally been composed mainly of middle and upper class Protestants who consider themselves heirs to the European libertarian tradition. It supports free trade and reducing the role of the state in economic policy. It is libertarian on social issues. The party has participated in all but three postwar federal governments but had not been in federal government from 1998 to 2009.
The FDP has traditionally been composed mainly of middle and upper class Protestants who consider themselves heirs to the European libertarian tradition. It supports free trade and reducing the role of the state in economic policy. It is libertarian on social issues. The party has participated in all but three postwar federal governments but had not been in federal government from 1998 to 2009.
====Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU)====
====Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU)====
The CDU has the greatest base of faithful voters, but is recently struggling to maintain majorities in big cities.
The CDU has the greatest base of faithful voters, but is recently struggling to maintain majorities in big cities.
====Die Linke (The Left)====
The PDS (for 'Partei des demokratischen Sozialismus'; "Party of Democratic Socialism", the renamed communist party of the former East Germany, and follow-up of the [[SED]]) and the WASG (for 'Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit'; "Voting alternative work and social justice" composed of west-German leftists) merged in June 2007 to form a party simply known as "[[The Left]]." The party's foreign policy is largely shaped by its rigid opposition to foreign military deployments, for example in [[Afghanistan]], and insists on an immediate pull-out. On domestic policy, the party opposes economic and social reforms, such as Hartz IV, which aim to increase free markets and reduce unemployment benefits. The Left proposes to weaken the free market system with a new orientation to democratic socialist principles. The Left also experienced a lot of criticism due to its communist wing, the 'communist platform' which makes up 4.4% of the national vote, an insufficient total to clear the 5 percent hurdle.<ref>[http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/facts/bl_electoral_system.htm German Culture.com; Electoral System of Germany (next to last paragraph)]</ref>
====Alternative for Germany====
====Alternative for Germany====