Press release no. 04/2013 of 18. Juni 2013
58 parties and political associations notifying their intention to participate in the Bundestag elections
WIESBADEN – By the submission deadline of 6 p.m. on Monday, 17 June 2013, 58 parties and political associations had notified the Federal Returning Officer of their intended participation in the 2013 elections to the Bundestag.
The Federal Returning Officer also reports that this notification is the prerequisite for most parties and political associations to participate in the Bundestag elections. Only those parties which have been continuously represented in the German Bundestag or in a Landtag since the last relevant elections by at least five representatives on the basis of the parties’ nominations are entitled to directly submit nominations of candidates to the relevant Land returning officer or constituency returning officer. All other parties and political associations have to notify the Federal Returning Officer in writing of their intention to participate.
The following parties and political associations have notified the Federal Returning Officer of their intended participation (listed in order by date of receipt):
- FWD – Freie Wähler Deutschland
- MDU – Muslimisch Demokratische Union
- (no shortened form) – Bündnis 2013 – Die Reformer
- Die PlanetBlauen – WasserPartei Deutschland-WPD
- DR – Deutsches Reich
- DIE VIOLETTEN – Die Violetten
- BP – Bayernpartei
- Deutsche Konservative – DEUTSCHE KONSERVATIVE PARTEI
- CM – CHRISTLICHE MITTE – Für ein Deutschland nach GOTTES Geboten
- Volksabstimmung – Ab jetzt…Demokratie durch Volksabstimmung
- Tierschutzpartei – PARTEI MENSCH UMWELT TIERSCHUTZ
- (no shortened form) – Eurowählergemeinschaft
- FAMILIE – Familien-Partei Deutschlands
- FREIE WÄHLER – FREIE WÄHLER
- RENTNER – RENTNER Partei Deutschland
- REP – DIE REPUBLIKANER
- Bündnis 21/RRP – Bündnis 21/RRP
- pro Deutschland – Bürgerbewegung pro Deutschland
- KPD – Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands
- (no shortened form) – Erste Partei des Volkes
- FRÜHLING – Frühling-in-Deutschland e. V.
- PdB – Partei der Bedrängten
- (no shortened form) – DIE RECHTE
- NEIN! – NEIN!-Idee
- DGP – Die GERADE Partei
- Die PARTEI – Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative
- ÖDP – Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei
- DUW – Demokratische Unabhängige Wählervereinigung
- BGD – Bund für Gesamtdeutschland
- BüSo – Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität
- DND – Die Neue Demokratie
- Aufbruch C – Aufbruch C
- DNV – Deutsche Nationalversammlung
- SU – SustainableUnion
- PBC – Partei Bibeltreuer Christen
- AfD – Alternative für Deutschland
- U.d.M. – Union der Menschlichkeit
- BIG – Bündnis für Innovation & Gerechtigkeit
- GMD – Partei Gesunder Menschenverstand Deutschland
- IDPD – Immigranten-Deutsche-Partei Deutschlands
- DKP – Deutsche Kommunistische Partei
- MLPD – Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands
- PSG – Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, Sektion der Vierten Internationale
- PIRATEN – Piratenpartei Deutschland
- (no shortened form) – Jahw Partei
- B – Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei"
- (no shortened form) – DIE ALTERNATIVEN
- (no shortened form) – Partei der Nichtwähler
- PARTEI DER VERNUNFT – Partei der Vernunft
- IDU – Islamische Demokratische Union
- DA – DIE AKTIVEN
- APPD – Anarchistische Pogo-Partei Deutschlands
- DIE FRAUEN – Feministische Partei DIE FRAUEN
- GRAUE PANTHER – GRAUE PANTHER Deutschland
- (no shortened form) – DIE.NÄCHSTEN
- Alternative Partei – Alternative Partei
- NM – NEUE MITTE
- DGP – Deutsche Gerechtigkeits Partei
The decision on the recognition of these associations as political parties will be taken by the Federal Electoral Committee on the 79th day before the Bundestag elections (Section 18 (4) of the Federal Elections Act). The meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee, which will be open to the public, will be held in the German Bundestag building in Berlin, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus (entrance Adele-Schreiber-Krieger-Str. 1), room 3.101 (Anhörungssaal), on Thursday, 4 July 2013, 11 a.m. and on Friday, 5 July 2013, 9 a.m.
Nominations of candidates will have to be submitted by 6 p.m. on 15 July 2009, viz. in the form of Land lists to the competent Land returning officers or as constituency nominations to the competent constituency returning officers. The decision on their admission will be taken by the Land Electoral Committees or Constituency Electoral Committees on 26 July 2013.
For further information:
Office of the Federal Returning Officer
tel: +49 611 75-4863
www.bundeswahlleiter.de/contact