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Press release no. 06/2013 of 5. Juli 2013

38 parties may participate in the 2013 Bundestag Election

WIESBADEN/BERLIN – The Federal Electoral Committee at its meeting in Berlin on 4 and 5 July 2013 ascertained in a binding form for all electoral bodies that 9 parties are sufficiently represented in the German Bundestag or in a Landtag and can participate in the election to the 18th German Bundestag on 22 September 2013 without having to submit supporting signatures. Also, the Federal Electoral Committee has recognised 29 political associations as parties for the 2013 Bundestag Election. Those parties may still submit lists of candidates by 15 July 2013, although they have to provide supporting signatures.

The following 9 parties have continuously been represented in the German Bundestag or in a Landtag since the latest relevant election by at least five members based on their own nomination of candidates (Section 18 subsection 4 number 1 of the Federal Elections Act) and therefore are not required to provide supporting signatures when submitting their lists of candidates for the 2013 Bundestag Election:

Parties represented in the 17th German Bundestag:

  1. Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU),
  2. Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD),
  3. Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP),
  4. DIE LINKE (DIE LINKE),
  5. BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN (GRÜNE),
  6. Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (CSU).

In addition, parties represented in at least one Landtag:

  1. FREIE WÄHLER (FREIE WÄHLER),
  2. Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD),
  3. Piratenpartei Deutschland (PIRATEN).

The Federal Electoral Committee has recognised as parties the following 29 associations for the election to the 18th German Bundestag (listed chronologically by receipt of their notification of intended participation; shortened forms in brackets):

  1. Die Violetten (DIE VIOLETTEN)
  2. Bayernpartei (BP)
  3. CHRISTLICHE MITTE – Für ein Deutschland nach GOTTES Geboten (CM)
  4. Ab jetzt…Demokratie durch Volksabstimmung (Volksabstimmung)
  5. PARTEI MENSCH UMWELT TIERSCHUTZ (Tierschutzpartei)
  6. Familien-Partei Deutschlands (FAMILIE)
  7. RENTNER Partei Deutschland (RENTNER)
  8. DIE REPUBLIKANER (REP)
  9. Bündnis 21/RRP (Bündnis 21/RRP)
  10. Bürgerbewegung pro Deutschland (pro Deutschland) 
  11. Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD)
  12. DIE RECHTE (no shortened form)
  13. NEIN!-Idee (NEIN!)
  14. Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative (Die PARTEI)
  15. Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ÖDP)
  16. Bund für Gesamtdeutschland (BGD)
  17. Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (BüSo)
  18. Partei Bibeltreuer Christen (PBC)
  19. Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)
  20. Bündnis für Innovation & Gerechtigkeit (BIG)
  21. Partei Gesunder Menschenverstand Deutschland (GMD)
  22. Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (DKP)
  23. Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (MLPD)
  24. Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, Sektion der Vierten Internationale (PSG)
  25. Bergpartei, die "ÜberPartei" (B)
  26. Partei der Nichtwähler (no shortened form)
  27. Partei der Vernunft (PARTEI DER VERNUNFT)
  28. Feministische Partei DIE FRAUEN (DIE FRAUEN)
  29. NEUE MITTE (NM)

Those parties recognised by the Federal Electoral Committee for the 2013 Bundestag Election have to collect supporting signatures for their lists of candidates. Signatures of a minimum of 200 persons entitled to vote in a specific constituency are required for a constituency nomination, while the signatures of at least one of each 1,000 persons of a given Land, who were entitled to vote during the latest Bundestag elections, but of not more than 2,000 persons are required for placing a proposal for a candidate in the Land list.

At the constituency and the Land levels, the lists of candidates will have to be received by the competent constituency returning officers and Land returning officers, respectively, by 15 July 2013 at 6 p.m. at the latest. Their admission will be decided upon by Constituency Electoral Committees and Land Electoral Committees, respectively, on 26 July 2013.

The confirmations of the Federal Electoral Committee may be contested within a period of four days after the day of publication by lodging a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court.

Pictures in a printable resolution on the meeting of the Federal Electoral Committee are available at: http://www.eventbildservice.de/galerie/271/

 

For further information:
Office of the Federal Returning Officer
tel: +49 611 75-4863
www.bundeswahlleiter.de/contact