This coalition was ruled out, because the FDP considered the Social Democrats and the Greens insufficiently committed to market-oriented economic reform.

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 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.

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

In spite of support from the Premiers of Bavaria ( Edmund Stoiber ( CSU )) and Hesse ( Roland Koch ( CDU )), Schäuble did not receive the party ’ s nomination in the end because CDU leader Angela Merkel, other CDU politicians and the liberal FDP party spoke out against him.

However, whilst there may be common ground in terms of social progressivism between the three parties, the FDP's economic liberalism and long association at the federal level with the conservative Christian Democratic Union make such a coalition problematic at present and the FDP had specifically ruled out this option for the 2009 election

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

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.

The CDU continued its role as opposition until 1982, when the FDP ’ s withdrawal from the coalition with the SPD allowed the CDU to regain power.

# The Filled Developmental Prototype ( FDP ) had 48 antenna units arrayed in six columns by eight rows, with 960 kW of transmitter power.

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

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.

The CSU has led the Bavarian state government since it came into existence in 1946, save from 1950 to 1953 when the Bavaria Party formed a state government in coalition with the German Branches of the SPD and FDP.

The CSU currently governs with the FDP.

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.

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

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling 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 Free Democratic Party (), abbreviated to FDP, is a classical liberal political party in Germany.

The FDP is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union ( Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ) in the German federal government.

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

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.

Following German reunification in 1990, the FDP merged with the Association of Free Democrats, a grouping of liberals from East Germany and the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany.

During the 1990s, the FDP won between 6. 2 and 11 percent of the vote in Bundestag elections.

However, because the CDU did worse than predicted, the FDP and the CDU / CSU alliance were unable to form a coalition government.

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.

Therefore, the FDP wasn't able to form a coalition with its preferred partners, the CDU / CSU parties.

One possibility was a partnership between the FDP, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and the Alliance 90 / The Greens, known as a " traffic light coalition ", named after the colors of the three parties.

The FDP are one of the coalition partners proposing the severe cuts to EEG tariff payment rates in March 2012.

* FDP entry on the acronyms. thefreedictionary. com website

As a co-founder of the Democratic People's Party ( Demokratische Volkspartei, DVP ), the predecessor of the German Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP ) in the southwestern German states, he was a member of the Württemberg-Baden state parliament ( Landtag ) from 1946 to 1949.

The opposition parties, the ( Christian Democratic Union / Christian Social Union ( CDU / CSU ) and Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), however, had a majority of 624 members because they commanded more seats in the federal states.

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.

In the snap elections in North Rhine-Westphalia a week later, the FDP not only crossed the threshold, but also increased its share of the votes to 2 percentage points higher than the previous state election.

Since in 2008, the CSU lost its absolute majority in Bavaria and formed a coalition with the FDP, the grand coalition had no majority in the Bundesrat and depended on FDP votes on important issues.

In June 2010, in the first state election following the victory of the CDU / CSU and FDP in the 2009 federal election, the " black-yellow " CDU-FDP coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia under Jürgen Rüttgers lost its majority.

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.

Though Kohl's election was done according to the Basic Law, some voices criticized the move as the FDP had fought its 1980 campaign on the side of the SPD and even placed Chancellor Schmidt on some of their campaign posters.

The CDU / CSU managed to get the FDP to defect from its coalition with the SPD in 1982, and thus CDU leader Helmut Kohl became Chancellor of West Germany.

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.

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.

This party sits in the Bundestag between Social Democrats and Christian Democrats, while the FDP has its seats at the right of the Christian Democrats.

Under his leadership, the LDPD developed some small scale contacts with its West German counterparts, the Free Democrats ( FDP ).

The Social-liberal coalition of SPD and FDP had lost its majority after several Bundestag MPs ( like former FDP ministers Erich Mende and Heinz Starke or SPD partisan Herbert Hupka ) had left their party and become members of the CDU / CSU opposition to protest against Chancellor Willy Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik, especially against the de facto recognition of the Oder-Neisse line by the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw.

In April 2005, the FDP announced its own dissolution and merger with the newly-formed National Alliance Party of Fiji, founded by Ratu Epeli Ganilau, a chief whose father and father-in-law both served as President of Fiji.