He ran for Federal Chancellor in 2002, but his preferred CDU / CSU and FDP coalition lost against the SPD candidate Gerhard Schröder's SPD-Green alliance.

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

For example, Helmut Kohl's CDU governed for years in coalition with the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), from 1998 to 2005 Gerhard Schröder's SPD was in power with the Greens and from 2009 Angela Merkel, CDU / CSU was in power with the FDP.

At other times, for example after the 2002 federal election, a coalition between the FDP and CDU / CSU was impossible primarily because of the weak results of the FDP.

In energy policy, the FDP calls for a combination of nuclear, coal, oil and gas and renewable energy for electricity production.

The FDP opposes phasing out of nuclear power. Regarding the EEG ( or Feed-in tariff ) the website of the FDP states that its policy is for more frequent review of the rates at which renewable generators are paid, in order to prevent what it describes as overpayment ( Überförderungen ).

The FDP supports strong competition laws and a minimum standard of welfare protection for every citizen.

The FDP is opposed to a tightening of the penal code, and instead supports for the recruitment of more police officers, judges, and prosecutors to improve security and speed up trials.

The FDP calls for the establishment of full-day schools and the high school diploma after twelve years of schooling.

The Christian Democrats lost votes compared to 2002, reaching only 35. 2 %, and failed to get a majority for a " black-yellow " government of CDU / CSU and liberal FDP.

When the votes were counted, the party doubled its federal vote from 1. 9 million ( PDS result in 2002 ) to more than 4 million — including an electoral breakthrough in industrial Saarland where, for the first time in a western state, it surpassed the Greens and FDP due, in large part to Lafontaine's popularity and Saarland roots.

Taking advantage of the historic political changes occurring in East Germany, Kohl presented a ten point plan for " Overcoming of the division of Germany and Europe " without consulting his coalition partner, the FDP, or the Western Allies.

Most deputies of SPD and FDP did not take part in the voting, as not voting had the same effect as voting for Brandt.

The SPD quickly gained popularity and succeeded in forming a social-liberal coalition with the FDP following the 1969 federal election, forcing the CDU out of power for the first time in their history.

During the Spiegel scandal in 1961 and 1962, he was arrested and jailed for 103 days, until Franz Josef Strauß was forced to resign as Minister of the Defense under continuing protest from the public and the resignation of the FDP cabinet members.

In 1969 Gerhard Schröder ran for the Office of the Federal President ( supported by CDU and NPD ), but he was beaten by Gustav Heinemann, the nominee of the SPD ( supported by FDP ), at the third ballot with 49. 4 % to 48. 8 % of the votes of the Federal Assembly.

In human anatomy, the flexor digitorum profundus ( FDP, Latin for " deep bender of the fingers ") is a muscle in the forearm that flexes the fingers ( also known as digits ).

In great apes the belly of the FDP has a separate tendon for the FDP.

The issue of improving relations with Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany made for an increasingly aggressive tone in public debates but it was a huge step forward when Willy Brandt and the Foreign Minister, Walther Scheel ( FDP ) negotiated agreements with all three countries ( Moscow Agreement, August 1970, Warsaw Agreement, December 1970, Four Power Agreement over the status of West Berlin in 1971 and an agreement on relations between West and East Germany, signed in December 1972 ).

The FDP remained dominant until the introduction of proportional representation in 1919.

The FDP was the dominant party until the 1919 election, when the introduction of proportional representation led to a leap in the representation of the Social Democrats.

On 30 May, when the law was voted on, the FDP was the only party to stand firm against their introduction.

The Young Liberals often perceive themselves as the policy making stimulus of the FDP and try to propose innovations into the party, sometimes succeeding e. g. in the FDP's decision to challenge the abandonment of the German compulsory military service, to support of the concept of an ecologically-sustanable social market economy, and replacement of existing social welfare benefits with a basic income called Bürgergeld.

In the 1980 elections he ran against the incumbent Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), but lost thereafter, as the SPD and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) managed to secure an absolute majority together, forming a Social-liberal coalition.

Furthermore, the leader of the German Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), Philipp Rösler, serves as Vice-Chancellor of Germany and the leader of the British Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

LYMEC is led by German politician Alexander Plahr ( FDP, Germany ), who was elected to a two-year term as LYMEC President in May 2010, and has a collective membership of over 200, 000 young liberal Europeans.

The FDP was founded on 11 December 1948 through the merger of nine regional liberal parties formed in 1945 from the remnants of the pre-1933 German People's Party ( DVP ) and the German Democratic Party ( DDP ), which had been active in the Weimar Republic.

After negotiations, the Saarland Greens rejected the option of a left-wing ' red-red-green ' coalition with the SPD and The Left ( Die Linke ) in order to form a centre-right state government with the CDU and Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), a historical first time that a Jamaica coalition has formed in German politics.

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

Present members are: Doris Leuthard ( CDP ), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf ( Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ), Ueli Maurer ( SPP ), Didier Burkhalter ( FDP ), Simonetta Sommaruga ( SDP ), Johann Schneider-Ammann ( FDP ) and Alain Berset ( SDP ).

As of 2010, the Zurich City Council is made up of four representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), two members of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), two members of the Green Party and one member of the CVP ( Christian Democratic Party ).

* FDP: 4. 4 % (+ 0. 5 ), 2 seats (+ 1 )

The Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), a classical liberal party, is the preferred partner of any CDU government since the CDU and FDP have similar attitudes towards fiscal policy.

The FDP, which strongly supports human rights, civil liberties, and internationalism, has shifted from the centre to the centre-right over time.

The FDP retained their seats in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was held six months after the federal election, but out of the seven state elections that have been held since 2009, the FDP have lost all their seats in five of them due to failing to cross the 5 % threshold.

The Greens and the SPD came one seat short of a governing majority, but after multiple negotiations about coalitions of SPD and Greens with either the FDP or The Left, the SPD and Greens decided to form a minority government, which was possible because under the constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia a plurality of seats is sufficient to elect a minister-president.

In 1972, Barzel attempted to force a cabinet crisis in the SPD / FDP government, which failed, leading him to step down.

On 1 October 1982, the CDU proposed a constructive vote of no confidence which was supported by the FDP.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 24. 9 % of the vote.

During that time, the FDP and CVP very slowly but steadily kept losing voter share to the SVP and SPS, respectively, which overtook the older parties in popularity during the 1990s.

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the FDP which received 30. 2 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 26. 6 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 88 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 87. 7 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 89. 9 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 81. 6 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 87. 1 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 88. 2 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 90 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 89. 1 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 90. 8 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 88. 6 % of the vote.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 89. 3 % of the vote.