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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.
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FDP and was
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 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.
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.
FDP and founded
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.
FDP and on
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 FDP wants a politically-integrated EU with a Common Foreign and Security Policy, but supported a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon.
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.
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.
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.
In February 1982, Schmidt won a Motion of Confidence, however on 17 September 1982, the coalition broke apart, with the four FDP ministers leaving his cabinet.
Based on this, FDP whip Erich Mende requested an official statement from the federal government.
Since the FDP had never claimed such a candidacy ( and hasn't done since ) and had no chance of attaining it against the two major parties, this move was widely seen as flippant political marketing alongside other moves, such as driving around in a campaign van dubbed the Guidomobile, wearing the figure 18 on the soles of his shoes or appearance in the Big Brother TV show.
Critics inside and outside the FDP have accused him of focusing on public relations, as opposed to developing and promoting sound public policy, especially in the election campaign of 2002.
Since Strauss had lied to the parliament, on November 19, the five FDP ministers of the cabinet resigned, demanding that Strauss and Volkmar Hopf be fired.
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on March 11, 1998 as a member of the Free Democratic Party ( FDP / PRD ) and the canton of Valais.
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.
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.
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FDP and 11
During the 1990s, the FDP won between 6. 2 and 11 percent of the vote in Bundestag elections.
The next three most popular parties were the SP / PS ( 19. 3 %), the FDP ( 11. 6 %) and the GLP Party ( 11. 5 %).
The SPS retained about the same popularity ( 19. 8 % in 2007 ), the FDP retained about the same popularity ( 13. 2 % in 2007 ) and the GLP retained about the same popularity ( 11. 5 % in 2007 ).
The next three most popular parties were the FDP ( 13. 7 %), the SP ( 11. 1 %) and the Green Party ( 10 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SPS ( 20. 1 %), the FDP ( 16. 2 %) and the CSP ( 11 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SPS ( 25. 15 %), the FDP ( 12. 54 %) and the Green Party ( 11. 29 %).
The next three most popular parties were the CVP ( 28. 5 %), the FDP ( 11. 2 %) and the SP ( 4. 8 %).
The other parties who got into the legislative were: SVP ( 11 seats ), FDP ( 9 ), CVP ( 6 ), Green Party ( 5 ), EVP ( 5 ), glp ( 2 ), EDU ( 1 ), AL ( 1 ), SD ( 1 ).
The next three most popular parties were the SPS ( 21. 3 %), the FDP ( 18. 72 %) and the Green Party ( 11. 62 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 27. 02 %), the FDP ( 12. 65 %) and the Green Party ( 11. 75 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 12. 51 %), the Green Party ( 12. 09 %) and the FDP ( 11. 96 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 21. 3 %), the LPS Party ( 11. 73 %) and the FDP ( 10. 83 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 15. 46 %), the FDP ( 12. 39 %) and the LPS Party ( 11. 09 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 20. 6 %), the Green Party ( 13. 95 %) and the FDP ( 11. 01 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SVP ( 20. 75 %), the FDP ( 15. 11 %) and the Green Party ( 13. 83 %).
The next three most popular parties were the CVP ( 18. 11 %), the SP ( 7. 6 %) and the FDP ( 3. 92 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 18. 79 %), the Green Party ( 13. 16 %) and the FDP ( 11. 74 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 24. 61 %), the Green Party ( 14. 18 %) and the FDP ( 11. 25 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SP ( 21. 27 %), the FDP ( 15. 61 %) and the Green Party ( 11. 34 %).
The next three most popular parties were the FDP ( 16. 05 %), the SP ( 15. 08 %) and the Green Party ( 11. 75 %).
The next three most popular parties were the FDP ( 20. 19 %), the SP ( 18. 91 %) and the Green Party ( 11. 24 %).
The next three most popular parties were the SPS ( 21 %), the Green Party ( 12. 9 %) and the FDP ( 11. 8 %).
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