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 ).

Traffic light coalition () is a term originating in German politics where it describes a coalition of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ), the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), and The Greens.

It was not until the rise of the Social Democratic Party in the early 20th century that the FDP found itself on the centre-right.

In the state of Bavaria, the CSU governs as the major party in a coalition government with the FDP.

Even after the 2009 general election, the CDU / CSU emerged as the largest party in Germany, yet both lost votes predominantly to the FDP.

The Free Democratic Party (), abbreviated to FDP, is a classical liberal political party in Germany.

FDP leader Guido Westerwelle became the unofficial leader of the opposition by virtue of the FDP's position as the largest opposition party in the Bundestag.

The FDP supports gay rights ; former party leader Guido Westerwelle is openly gay.

The three smaller parties thus have more seats in the German Bundestag than ever before, with the liberal party FDP winning 14. 6 % of votes.

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.

After serving in several party offices, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party was in coalition with the FDP, in 1969 ; in 1974, he became foreign minister and Vice Chancellor.

After public outrage and heavy protests from the coalition partner FDP he dismissed Strauss, but the reputation of Adenauer and his party had already suffered.

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.

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

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.

Having been a member of the Executive Board of the FDP since 1988, he first gained national prominence in 1994, when he was appointed Secretary General of the party.

However, Wolfgang Stammberger, the Minister of Justice, belonging to the smaller coalition party FDP, was deliberately left out of all decisions.

For example the German moderate-right Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) has often received votes from voters who preferred the larger Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) party, because they feared that if the FDP received less than 5 % of the votes, the CDU would have no parliamentary allies and would be unable to form a government on its own.

* FDP. The Liberals, a political party in Switzerland

In the 2002 national election, he produced a flyer criticizing Ariel Sharon's actions against Palestinians and Michel Friedman's endorsement of those actions ; the flyer was regarded as " antisemitic " by some, and the debate surrounding these events led to Möllemann leaving the FDP in March 2003 and resigning his position as NRW party leader ; however, he kept his seat in the Bundestag without party affiliation, despite promises to resign from it.

The CDU / CSU had also reached a majority in the Federal Convention electing the President of Germany, and in 1979 the party nominated Carstens, though in contestation due to his Nazi past, as candidate, whereafter incumbent President Walter Scheel ( FDP ) chose to renounce a second term.

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.

The FDP is opposed to wiretapping, although the FDP originally supported ' Großer Lauschangriff '.

The FDP advocates the accession of Turkey to the EU, although this would require Turkey to fulfil all criteria.

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.

Schmidt continued to head a minority government composed only of SPD members, while the FDP negotiated a coalition with the CDU / CSU.

In the national vote on 27 September 2009 the FDP increased its share of the vote by 4. 8 % to 14. 6 %, an all-time record so far.

The CSU currently governs at the federal level with the CDU and the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

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 in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.

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.

The FDP adheres to a classical liberal ideology, advocating liberalism in both the economic sphere and social sphere.

The FDP espouses the most economic liberal ideas of the parties represented in the German federal parliament.

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.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( born 21 March 1927 ) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on 23 May 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on 1 July 2004.

Möllemann was initially a member of the CDU from 1962 to 1969, but later on became a member of the liberal FDP in 1970.

The liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) has 2 directly elected representatives.

It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP. The Liberals on 1 January 2009.

The five parties having more than 5 percent in recent polls ( minimum to qualify ) are the conservative CDU, the social-democratic SPD, the ecologist Green Party ( GAL ), the left-wing Die Linke and the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

Klaus Kinkel ( born 17 December 1936 ) is a German civil servant, lawyer, and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

Wulff was sworn in as Premier on 2003, as the head of a coalition between centre-right Christian Democrats and liberal Free Democrats ( FDP ).

* the forum of the German FDP, which is relatively unmoderated, and illustrates grassroots liberal concerns.

Karl-Hermann Flach ( Königsberg, October 17, 1929 – Frankfurt, August 25, 1973 ) was a German journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats ( FDP ).

While industrial leaders and both the conservative and economically liberal parliamentary parties such as the CDU, the CSU, and the FDP strongly supported Agenda 2010 as it implemented their long-time demands, there was a strong upheaval in Schröder's own social democratic party.

From 1948 to 1956 Koch was a member of the liberal FDP ( Free Democratic Party ).

The delegates of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) already formed a united faction with their Christian Social ( CSU ) colleagues from Bavaria, as did the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) together with the Hessian Liberal-Democratic Party and the Democratic People's Party ( DVP ) from Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern.