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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 FDP had promised to lower taxes in the electoral campaign but after being part of the coalition they had to admit that this was not possible regarding the economic crisis.

Because of the losses Guido Westerwelle had to resign as chair of the FDP in favor of Philipp Rösler, Federal Minister of Health, who was consequently appointed as vice chancellor.

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 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.

In 1965 Genscher was elected on the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP list to the West German parliament and remained a member of parliament until his retirement in 1998.

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.

The classic distribution of 2 CVP / PDC, 2 SPS / PSS, 2 FDP / PRD and 1 SVP / UDC as it stood from 1959 to 2003 was known as the " magic formula ".

Strauß was also unable to defeat the SPD / FDP alliance.

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

After the election, the Liberals and FDP founded a common caucus in the Federal Assembly.

Given this historical connection, the Free Democratic Party ( FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei ) was founded on 11 December 1948 in Heppenheim.

The JuLis were founded in 1980, and was recognized as the official FDP youth wing in 1983.

In June 2002, Bole founded the Fiji Democratic Party ( FDP ) as a merger of some members of the Fijian Political Party, the Christian Democratic Alliance, the Fijian Association Party, and the New Labour Unity Party, but in early 2005, the FDP decided to officially disband and merge into the National Alliance Party, a new party founded by Ratu Epeli Ganilau, as a claimed successor to the defunct Fijian Alliance which ruled the country from 1967 to 1987.

He was president of the Friends of the FDP ( Freunde der FDP ) association, founded 2004 to support the Swiss FDP political party, which he has been a member of since his youth.

The party was founded in 1991 as a split from the FPÖ by the former secretary of state Mario Ferrari-Brunnenfeld ( initially as FDP Österreich ).

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.

Since the PSI and the PCI together received more votes than the Christian Democrats, they decided to unite in 1948 to form the Popular Democratic Front ( FDP ).

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

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.

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.

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.

Led by Finance Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff ( 1926 – 2009 ) the FDP adopted the market-oriented " Kiel Theses " in 1977 ; it rejected the Keynesian emphasis on consumer demand, and proposed to reduce social welfare spending, and try to introduce policies to stimulate production and facilitate jobs.

In 1969, Brandt gained a small majority by forming a coalition with the FDP.

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

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.

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 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.

In the 1969 election, the SPD — headed by Willy Brandt — gained enough votes to form a coalition government with the FDP.

Wulff's candidacy for President of Germany in the 2010 presidential election was formally confirmed by Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer, the heads of the CDU, FDP and CSU parties, during the evening of 2010.

D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product ( or FDP ), a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis.

In October 1982 CDU chairman Helmut Kohl was elected Chancellor by a CDU / CSU and FDP majority in the Bundestag, while the FDP in 1980 still was on the side of the SPD.

The coalition of SPD and FDP wanted to be re-elected, with the SPD now led by Helmut Schmidt-the party's candidate for Chancellor.

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.

A number of non-voting members ( elected in 1949: 2 CDU, 5 SPD, 1 FDP ; joined in February 1952 by: 3 CDU, 4 SPD, 4 FDP ) indirectly elected by the West Berlin legislature ( Stadtverordnetenversammlung ) are included below in parentheses.