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| == Political Experiments == | == Political Experiments == |
| In particular the city state of Hamburg seems to be prone to these ones over the years. Examples include the "Grey Panthers", a party of and for retirees. Given that Germany is an overage society with a lot of retirees, one might expect that they're also a heavy force of voters. A second example was the "STATT Partei", a populist party with unclear ideological profile - really, us Germans have no idea what they were about! Another freaky example was the so-called "Schill Party", which was founded by a fired judge who possibly wanted to style himself as Judge Dredd. Anyways, after facing acute incompetence and a cocaine scandal involving the hypocrite "Judge Merciless" as he was called (and liked to style himself) his party kicked him out and faded with him again into insignificance. That's life.\\ | In particular the city state of Hamburg seems to be prone to these ones over the years. Examples include the "Grey Panthers", a party of/by/for retirees. Given that Germany is an overage society with a lot of retirees, one might expect that they're also a heavy force of voters, but no. A second example was the "STATT Partei", a populist party with unclear ideological profile - really, us Germans have no idea what they were about! Another freaky example was the so-called "Schill Party", which was founded by a fired judge who possibly wanted to style himself as Judge Dredd. Anyways, after facing acute incompetence and a cocaine scandal involving the hypocrite "Judge Merciless" as he was called (and liked to style himself) his party kicked him out and faded with him again into insignificance. That's life.\\ |
| The most recent notable example, especially in regard of the 2009 Bundestag election, would be the so-called Pirate Party, a new party dedicated to the subject of informational self-determination. Seems they petered out, though. | The most recent notable example, especially in regard of the 2009 Bundestag election, would be the so-called Pirate Party, a new party dedicated to the subject of informational self-determination. Seems they petered out, though. |
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| == Brown Scum == | == Brown Scum == |
| In the post-WWII political climate, right extremist parties are understandably under quite a taboo. Yet, there have always been some parties on the right-extremist spectrum who do creep up in a state parliament now and then, for one legislature period - but usually not for longer, because the levels of incompetence and infighting they show once in parliament are quite staggering. For example, the DVU (//Deutsche Volksunion// - German People's Union) managed to get elected into state parliaments nine times - and only once the faction //didn't// split over infighting. And that despite the part being under the rather dictatorial rule of its long-time president and main money giver, a media entrepreneur from Munich. In 2010/11 (after said founder had retreated) they decided to join the NPD - except that parts of them weren't happy about it and decided to sue. So, business as usual. | In the post-WWII political climate, right extremist parties are understandably under quite a taboo. Yet, there have always been some parties on the right-extremist spectrum who do creep up in a state parliament now and then, for one legislature period - but usually not for longer, because the levels of incompetence and infighting they show once in parliament are quite staggering. For example, the DVU (//Deutsche Volksunion// - German People's Union) managed to get elected into state parliaments nine times - and only once the faction //didn't// split over infighting. And that despite the part being under the rather dictatorial rule of its long-time president and main money giver, a media entrepreneur from Munich. In 2010/11 (after said founder had retreated -- in 2013 he died) they decided to join the NPD - except that parts of them weren't happy about it and decided to sue. So, business as usual. |
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| More successful than the DVU, and with a longer history is the NPD (//Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands// - National Democratic Party of Germany), which oscillates between trying to appear respectably and making contacts with the neonazi skinhead scene. Currently, it very much is the latter, but still (or because of it?) the party was for some time very successful on the state level, if in something of a financial crisis. | More successful than the DVU, and with a longer history is the NPD (//Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands// - National Democratic Party of Germany), which oscillates between trying to appear respectably and making contacts with the neonazi skinhead scene. Currently, it very much is the latter, but still (or because of it?) the party was for some time very successful on the state level, if in something of a financial crisis. |
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| == Christian / Conservative parties == | == Christian / Conservative parties == |
| A footnote, pretty much. Most noteworthy are one of if not the oldest parties of Germany, the Zentrum, which was almost-perpetual government party during the Weimar republic (1918/19 - 1932) and the DSU (//Deutsche Soziale Union//) which was part of the last Eastern German government and thought about become an eastern CSU for a while. Besides, we have the DP (//Deutsche Partei//, that is, the new-founded version from 1993), the PBC (//Partei Bibeltreuer Christen//), the AUF (//Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie//), the Bündnis C of the latter two, the CM (//Christliche Mitte//), the Familien-Partei and maybe some we forgot. All of them are or have become hopeless splinter parties. The LKR (//Liberal-Konservative Reformer//) of former AfD boss Bernd Lucke will probably join them after the next European elections in 2019. | A footnote, pretty much. Most noteworthy are one of if not the oldest parties of Germany, the Zentrum, which was almost-perpetual government party during the Weimar republic (1918/19 - 1932) and the DSU (//Deutsche Soziale Union//) which was part of the last Eastern German government and thought about becoming an eastern CSU for a while. Besides, we have the DP (//Deutsche Partei// -- that is, the new-founded version from 1993), the PBC (//Partei Bibeltreuer Christen//), the AUF (//Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie//), the Bündnis C of the latter two, the CM (//Christliche Mitte//), the Familien-Partei and maybe some we forgot. All of them are or have become hopeless splinter parties. The LKR (//Liberal-Konservative Reformer//) of former AfD boss Bernd Lucke joined them after the European elections in 2019. |
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| == Fun Parties (Spaßparteien) == | == Fun Parties (Spaßparteien) == |
