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Party members were permitted to declare their candidacy between 1 July and 1 September. Candidates were able to run as a sole candidate to head the party alone, or with another member on a two-person ticket to serve as co-leaders. In the latter case, at least one candidate was required to be female.
On 4 December 2021, the delegates of a special SPD party conference approved the traffic light coalition agreement for the Scholz cabinet with 98.8% of the votes, on 5 December 2021, the delegates of a largely digital extraordinary FDP federal party conference approved it with 92.24% of the votes and on 6 December 2021, 86% of the members of ...
Sanae Abdi; Karl Aberle; Wolfgang Abendroth; Kurt Adams; Dieter Aderhold; Lore Agnes; Johannes Agnoli; Adis Ahmetovic; Lale Akgün; Heinrich Albertz; Luise Albertz
Olaf Scholz, Germany's least popular chancellor on record, is facing growing calls within his Social Democrats (SPD) to step aside and let his Defence Minister Boris Pistorius instead lead the ...
Last week, the mayor of Munich, Germany's third largest city, was the latest SPD party politician to suggest it should consider fielding the popular Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, 64, as its ...
In Germany, the state list or state electoral proposal, (German: Landesliste or Landeswahlvorschlag) is the list of candidates of a party for the election to the Bundestag, or the elections to those state parliaments with mixed-member proportional representation and for the European Parliament elections if a party decides on a state rather than a federal list. [1]
In the Soviet occupation zone, the SPD was forcibly merged with the KPD in 1946 to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). The SED was the ruling party of East Germany until 1989. [28] In West Germany, the SPD became one of two major parties, alongside the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
The federal government of Germany often consisted of a coalition of a major and a minor party, specifically CDU/CSU and FDP or SPD and FDP, and from 1998 to 2005 SPD and Greens. From 1966 to 1969, from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2021, the federal government consisted of a coalition of the two major parties, called a grand coalition .