Which German Party would you fit into best?

[Frodo]

Christian Democratic Union

[War on Want]

SDP

[Meeker]

Gray Panthers

[Franzl]

Gray Panthers

They don't exist anymore.

[Meeker]

Gray Panthers

They don't exist anymore.

That's what we want you to think.

[Hash]

Isn't there a Christian right/conservative greenie party in Bavaria?

[Хahar 🤔]

Isn't there a Christian right/conservative greenie party in Bavaria?

ÖDP.

[Governor PiT]

NDP

[Hash]

Isn't there a Christian right/conservative greenie party in Bavaria?

ÖDP.

Them. They make me lol.

NDP

Go away, Robert Stark. And it's NPD, illiterate fool.

[Franzl]

NDP

You understand that the NPD is quite the opposite of libertarian?

[SPQR]

SDP

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

FDP. But as I'd be a tactical voter (against the SDP), my vote would go to the CDU when it's needed.

^^^^^^^^

[minionofmidas]

SDP

FDP. But as I'd be a tactical voter (against the SDP), my vote would go to the CDU when it's needed.

^^^^^^^^

It's SPD.

[minionofmidas]

Xahar, do you agree with my self-description as a Green/CDU swinger?  I'm always a bit embarrassed not to support a party over their "smell," but FDP smells more libertarian than liberal.

Yeah, that seems about right.

The FDP has described themselves as a party for rich people.

and that was a very stupid thing to say....

True though.

But very accurate. At least as "core" support is concerned - but then the core-to-potential relationship is much the lowest of all German parties, as the potential votership includes most of the CDU-leaning population.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

as the potential votership includes most of the CDU-leaning population.

Presumably that started in the '80's?

[minionofmidas]

as the potential votership includes most of the CDU-leaning population.

Presumably that started in the '80's?

It's been blatantly obvious, and a necessary condition of the FDP's survival, since it's 1983 rebound. But the seeds were sown far earlier (and might I add the FDP has also relied on "borrowed" SPD votes at times).

[Middle-aged Europe]

Gray Panthers

They don't exist anymore.

That's what we want you to think.

However, there are two successor parties: "The Grays - Generations' Party" and "Gray Panthers Alliance". Both parties are very similar, but they hate each other for mostly personal reasons. So, their relationship is roughly comparable to that between FPÖ and BZÖ in Austria.

[NOVA Green]

Bundnis '90/ Die Grunen

^^^^^^^^^

Of course depending on which state I lived in there might be some strategic voting going on....

[SPQR]

SDP

FDP. But as I'd be a tactical voter (against the SDP), my vote would go to the CDU when it's needed.

^^^^^^^^

It's SPD.

Always get confused with it...thanks.

[??????????]

FDP, I suppose. Not sure though, Lewis, help me out.

[Lief 🗽]

I'd like to support Die Linke, but they're unfortunately a bunch of ex-Stasi freedom-haters. My list vote would be Green, and my electorate vote would be SDP (or Green if I lived in a constituency where they could win).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

With questions like this people should try to bear two things in mind; 1. why they support the party that they do in their own country and 2. what are the roots of political divisions in the country in question and how do their background and views relate to that.

[Math]

I really don't know. Green I suppose, but possibly FDP or SPD.

[Хahar 🤔]

as the potential votership includes most of the CDU-leaning population.

Presumably that started in the '80's?

It's been blatantly obvious, and a necessary condition of the FDP's survival, since it's 1983 rebound. But the seeds were sown far earlier (and might I add the FDP has also relied on "borrowed" SPD votes at times).

What was Brandt's FDP like?

[minionofmidas]

as the potential votership includes most of the CDU-leaning population.

Presumably that started in the '80's?

It's been blatantly obvious, and a necessary condition of the FDP's survival, since it's 1983 rebound. But the seeds were sown far earlier (and might I add the FDP has also relied on "borrowed" SPD votes at times).

What was Brandt's FDP like?

Faction-ridden. The "left" wing was broadly in control until about 1980, though - many of them departed for the SPD after 1982 (not sure about nationwide, but in Hesse FDP membership halfed that year), and those who remained have been pretty marginalized ever since, although a few token left liberals (to use the German term) have remained in visible positions - Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (lol at that name) still chairs the Bavarian FDP.
Basically, the old left liberals were to the SPD's left on social and legal issues (the SPD has since moved to, basically, their old positions. The FDP retains technically committed to much the same positions as well, not that it has acted on its stated principles more than twice or so since 1982.) They were quite obviously a middle-class party with a middle-class clientele, though, and their economic stances were more right wing. But your typical left liberal would have left worrying about the party's economic stances to the right wingers.