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The Free Democratic Party (German: Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP, German pronunciation: [ɛfdeːˈpeː] ⓘ) is a liberal [3] [4] political party in Germany. The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of former liberal political parties which existed in Germany before World War II, namely the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party.
The FDP calls for consistent action against abuse of laws in Switzerland by immigrants, and in repeated cases calls for deporting foreign criminals in accordance with international law. The FDP supports a peaceful foreign policy, which increases the security of Switzerland and prevents an increasing number of refugees.
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. In 1959, the Free Democrats joined the other major parties in agreeing the ' magic formula ' to divide up the seats of the Federal Council , with the FDP permanently receiving ...
FDP.The Liberals, in Switzerland; Fancy Dress Party, a frivolous party in England; Fiji Democratic Party; Florida Democratic Party in the United States; Free Democratic Party (disambiguation) Popular Democratic Front (Italy) (Italian: Fronte Democratico Popolare), a short-lived communist–socialist coalition in 1947–48
FDP.The Liberals, a conservative liberal political party in Switzerland; Free Democrats (Armenia) Free Democrats (Georgia) Historical parties of the name include: Free Democratic Party (East Germany) Free Democratic Party (Northern Cyprus) Free Democratic Party of Switzerland; Free Democratic Party (Turkey)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1992 (except for a two-week break in 1982, after the FDP had left the Third Schmidt cabinet), making him ...
The FDP Hamburg is the regional state association of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in Hamburg. It was founded on September 20, 1945, as the first liberal state party in West Germany . The party's parliamentary group was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1946 to 1978, from 1987 to 1993, from 2001 to 2004 and from 2011 to 2020.
The traffic light coalition between SPD, The Greens, and FDP was a first in German history.. The 2021 German federal election resulted in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) emerging as the strongest party in the Bundestag, with 25.71% of the vote (206 seats out of 736).