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| | Bundestag elections drive Germany into political chaos - PRAVDA.Ru |
 | | The Party of Democratic Socialism, the reformed successor of Germany's old communists, received over eight percent of votes in the elections and overcame the five-percent limit. | | | It became clear after the first results of the voting were unveiled that the conservatives from the Christian Democratic Union received the majority of electors' votes. | | | As a result, the Christian Democratic Union gained 225 seats, Social Democrats received 222 seats, Free Democrats take 61, The Greens enjoy 51 and the left Democratic Socialism Party has 54 seats. |
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| | Germany (11/05) |
| | The government is parliamentary, and a democratic constitution emphasizes the protection of individual liberty and division of powers in a federal structure. | | | The postwar Weimar Republic (1919-33) was established as a broadly democratic state, but the government was severely handicapped and eventually doomed by economic problems and the rise of the political extremes. | | | The highest court is the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court), which ensures a uniform interpretation of constitutional provisions and protects the fundamental rights of the individual citizen as defined in the Basic Law. |
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Angela Merkel asks Dresden voters to support her party |
| | Germany's conservative leader Angela Merkel on Friday urged voters in the eastern city of Dresden to strengthen her party in a weekend ballot that will conclude the country's election, arguing that a strong result would allow her to put a "strong signature" on the new government. | | | Germany's Greens, seeking to maintain a high profile as they prepare for opposition, on Tuesday chose a combative outgoing minister and a respected former party chairman to lead them in parliament More details... | | | In Germany's general election Sunday, described as the most inconclusive in the country's postwar history, voters refused to give a clear-cut majority to any party. |
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| | ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005091724181) |
| | He was elected the leader of the Social Democrat Party (SPD) after resignation of former leader Oskar Lafontaine. | | | Germany to Decide About Turkey in the Elections | | | The propaganda deadline for the two blocks in order to gain the votes of the undecided voters was extended to the weekend. |
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| | Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel Part 1: East Germany--youth and political ... |
| | In the 2002 federal elections, she ceded the chancellor candidacy to Edmund Stoiber, leader of the CDU’s smaller sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union (CSU). | | | In the last SED-led government under Hans Modrow, the attorney de Maizière was minister for church affairs; he also enjoyed excellent contacts with the political elite in West Germany. | | | Lothar de Maizière, who also knew Merkel’s father, fulfilled her wish for high office and made her his government spokeswoman. |
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| | The German Right: Markets, Morality and Migration, by Jan-Werner Mueller |
| | Given Merkel's weakness, it is not surprising that Edmund Stoiber, prime minister of Bavaria and head of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, has been positioning himself as the most likely conservative candidate for the federal election in 2002. | | | Schroeder, the popular "chancellor of consensus," systematically closed down political space, as his reforms favored corporations, but his party managed to convince Germans that it was most concerned with social justice. | | | The party was never as clearly neoliberal as Republicans or British conservatives, and its Catholic social doctrine already contains many of the policy prescriptions that conservative parties in the West are now selling as ideological innovations. |
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| | TIME Europe Germany: Time for a Change 4/3/2000 |
| | Her lack of experience and the fact that she is not the party leader in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, raise doubts that Merkel will be the party's candidate for Chancellor at the time of the next election in 2002. | | | Perhaps in the aftermath of the scandals, voters prefer their politicians to be unadorned, if not unfashionable. | | | De Maizière said he persuaded Kohl that Merkel "had the intellectual capability, was good at organizing and capable of leading an administration." Kohl finally acquiesced and appointed Merkel his Minister for Women, Family and Youth, later elevating her to run government policy on the environment. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Merkel joins race to lead Germany |
| | She joined the CDU two months before the reunification of Germany and within three months she was in Helmut Kohl's cabinet as minister for women and youth. | | | If Mr Schroeder's government loses the confidence vote, parliament will be dissolved and elections will be held by mid-September. | | | Mr Schroeder plans to hold a confidence vote in parliament by 1 July - the first step in forcing early elections. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Special report: Germany |
| | December 21: Josef Ackermann, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank, could swiftly resign if Germany's federal high court rules later today that he must undergo a retrial over his role in the Mannesmann executive bonus scandal. | | | November 23: Angela Merkel has become Germany's first woman chancellor, winning 397 votes in the 614-seat Bundestag, or lower house. | | | Above all, this was a vote against neoliberalism |
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| | William P. Kucewicz on Paul Kirchhof , Germany, and Flat Taxes on NRO Financial |
| | Paul Kirchhof, 62, a University of Heidelberg professor and a former constitutional court judge, became the instant star of the team. | | | During his tenure on Federal Constitutional Court, for instance, Kirchhof penned a landmark decision reserving Germany’s right to reject any European Union (EU) directive that breached its own constitutional law. | | | In answer to questions at a Berlin news conference announcing her new team, Merkel wouldn’t promise Kitchhof a cabinet seat in a new government, however. |
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| | Germany elections - Saxony - neo-nazis tied with Schröder at 9%; ex-communists take second at 24% |
| | From my calculations, the Christian Democrats will be awarded 52 seats of the 120 seat state government. | | | I believe they can form a ruling coalition with the Free Democrats, whom I think will be awarded 8 seats, even though this is only 50 percent of the seats, because - being the largest party - they have a kind of tie-breaker. | | | National Democratic Party: 9.2% (+7.8%) 12 Free Democratic Party: 5.9% (+4.8%) 7 |
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| | Strauss, Franz Josef on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Elected to the Bundestag in 1949, he became (1956) minister of defense of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in the coalition government of Christian Democratic chancellor Konrad Adenauer. | | | In 1978 Strauss was elected premier of Bavaria, a position that served as a springboard for his 1980 bid for election as chancellor of West Germany. | | | He later served (Dec., 1966-Oct., 1969) as finance minister in the government of Christian Democratic chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. |
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| | Washingtonpost.com: German Elections, 1998 |
| | High unemployment and lingering difficulties in modernizing the East German economy weighed heavy on German voters during the Sept. 1998 elections. | | | In 1994 elections, the CDU and the CSU together earned 41.5 percent of the vote and won 294 seats making it the country's largest party/coalition. | | | Chancellor of Germany since 1982, Kohl and his party ran for an unprecedented fifth term in office in Sept. 1998 only to lose to the Social Democratic Party and its candidate, Gerhard Schroeder. |
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| | Weekly Standard, The: The Merkel manual: just the prescription for Germany? |
| | Why Schroder, a political survivalist, decided to move up Election Day (in what amounts to a self-inflicted vote of no confidence) remains unclear. | | | On May 22, voters in North Rhine-Westphalia fulfilled Pfluger's dream, ousting the Social Democrats after nearly four decades of rule. | | | "The Social Democrats have governed that state for the past 39 years," he explained. |
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| | Haider's success has illustrated the appeal of a nationalist right. | | | traditional uneasiness in the rest of Germany about electing a chancellor from Bavaria, a very large and overwhelmingly Catholic state | | | Schaeuble is expected to serve as temporary chairman until the party can elect a new leader at its next congress in April. |
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| | Dieter Spranger, Christian Democratic Union finance minister of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, said on August 15 that ... |
| | Bosnians were to scheduled to leave Germany for Bosnia on July 1, 1996, but the 16 state or Laender, who make expulsion decisions, agreed not to force Bosnians to leave on that date. | | | MEMBER OF Immigration Laws: September, 1996 - Number #9 | | | Dieter Spranger, Christian Democratic Union finance minister of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, said on August 15 that the Bosnians are overstaying their welcome in Germany, and that they should return to Bosnia immediately to help with reconstruction. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Profile: Angela Merkel |
| | She joined the CDU two months before the reunification of Germany and within three months she was in the Kohl cabinet as minister for women and youth. | | | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Angela Merkel has become Germany's first woman chancellor, despite only scraping a victory in the 18 September election. | | | The move paid dividends and she was chosen to lead the party in April 2000. |
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| | STRATFOR: Germany: Merkel vs. Multiculturalism |
| | An October poll by the independent Infratest institute showed support for the party decreased from 50 percent in March to 40 percent in October (the SPD fell from 30 percent to 23 percent). | | | Angela Merkel, leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party, lambasted Germany's policies on multiculturalism during a party conference Dec. 6 in Dusseldorf. | | | In September, regional elections resulted in gains for the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), a neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic group that won nearly 10 percent of the vote in the state of Saxony, while the German People's Union (DVU), another right-wing party, won 6 percent of the vote in Brandenburg. |
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| | Election fallout in Germany |
| | Schroeder's rival, Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union/Christian Democratic Union alliance, failed to articulate an alternative to that stance. | | | Social Democrat Schroeder said this would be his position even if action against Iraq is approved by the U.N. Security Council. | | | Fortunately, Schroeder has a tactful foreign minister in Joschka Fischer of the Green Party, increasingly important in the governing coalition. |
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| | CBC News: Conservative Christian Democrats win the final seat in Germany |
| | As of election night, the CDU had three seats more than the Social Democrats. | | | Roland Koch, the conservative governor of Hesse state, said the vote confirmed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavaria-only sister party, the Christian Social Union, as the strongest bloc in parliament, and said it should choose the next chancellor. | | | Andreas Laemmel (C), local candidate of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), smiles at a CDU election party after initial polling results in voting district 160 Oct. 2 in Dresden, Germany. |
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| | MSN Encarta - List of Items - Christian Democratic Union (Germany) |
| | For the first time in the 20-year history of the West German Federal Republic, a general election resulted in a government led by the Social Democratic Party. | | | Departing significantly from the past policies of the Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats and their much smaller coalition partner,... | | | MSN Encarta - List of Items - Christian Democratic Union (Germany) |
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| | But putting the party - and now his word - above the rule of law is another matter. | | | Kohl stood by President Reagan and the United States during the Euro-missile debate of the early 1980s. | | | The SPD-led government of Gerhard Schroeder had been faltering, having lost a string of state and municipal elections last fall. |
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| | ::.Angus Reid Consultants.:: |
| | While the next parliamentary ballot was tentatively scheduled for September 2006, Schroeder has openly suggested holding an early federal election. | | | The Social Democrats had been involved in the government of Germany’s most populous state since 1966. | | | On May 22, the Christian Democrats won the election in North Rhine-Westphalia with 44.8 per cent of the vote. |
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| | ANALYSIS: Four Christian parties unite into Christian Democratic Union (05/18/03) |
| | Eduard Ilyin, a leader of the newly united party, said that the party's major goals were "devotion to God and serving the people and the state." | | | Though the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has united several parties, it should be noted that part of the Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine and the Republican Christian Party refused to join. | | | KYIV - The Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party, the Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine, the All-Ukrainian Union of Christians and the Christian People's Union united into the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). |
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| | Bavarian leader Edmund Stoiber is running for chancellor under the CDU-CSU banner against incumbent Gerhard Schroeder of the Social Democratic Party. | | | BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- The Christian Democratic Union and its sister party, the Christian Social Union, are entering the September 22 elections with a shared programme under the banner, "Performance and security -- Time for actions." | | | Europe should become a "partner capable of responsibilities" in relation to the United States |
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| | Our basic values liberty, solidarity and justice are derived from it. | | | Stoiber was born on September 28, 1941, in the German town of Oberaudorf. | | | Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber is running for the post of German chancellor in the September 22 election under the joint banner of the Christian Socialist Union and its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union. |
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| | Bloomberg.com: Germany |
| | No party has enough seats in the state parliament to govern alone. | | | In Saxony, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party recorded its worst ever state election result, while the National Democratic Party won election to a state parliament for the first time since 1968. | | | In Brandenburg, both the Social Democrats and CDU lost support, while the Party of Democratic Socialism and the German People's Union increased their share of the vote. |
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| | Democratic Party of the Saar 1950's (Demokratische Partei Saar) | | | Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands / SPD) | | | Free Democratic Party (Liberal Party) (Freie Demokratische Partei / Die Liberalen / FDP) |
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| | German Christian Democratic Union, Overview |
| | The Christian Democratic Union was one of the original parties in Janda's 1950-1962 ICPP study. | | | Collectively known as the Christian Democrats, the CDU and CSU have drawn their political base from the Roman Catholics and Protestants. | | | Under Helmut Kohl, the party held control of government from 1983 to 1998. |
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| | Germany became the first European Union country to enshrine animal rights in the constitution. | | | 1918 Germany defeated; a revolution overthrew the monarchy. | | | 1982 Helmut Kohl (Christian Democratic Union) became the West German chancellor. |
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| | Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called a snap election for Sep 18 after his Social Democratic Union lost badly in a key regional vote in May. The snap election is one year early. | | | The conservative opposition Christian Democratic Union thrashed the SDU’s red-green alliance in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, which the SDU had ruled for 39 years. | | | The federal opposition, made up of the CDU and the Christian Social Union of Edmund Stoiber, looks set for a landslide victory, but Schroeder has Summer on his side. |
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| | Konrad Adenauer - An historical biography |
| | Elections were held in Germany in 1949 as a result of which Adenauer became - at the age of seventy-three - Germany's first post war Chancellor. | | | Adenauer worked towards the rebuilding of Germany as an economic and diplomatic power. | | | He now turned his interest towards national rather than local politics and helped in the adaptation of the traditionally Roman Catholic Center Party towards becoming a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) that hoped to attract the support of all religions and groups to a re-establishment of democratic rule. |
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| | The National Assembly or Bunge has 224 members, 210 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies, 12 members appointed and 2 ex officio members. | | | The Kenya African Democratic Union was a political party in Kenya The Republic of Kenya, or Kenya (pronounced: Ken-yah), is a country in East Africa. | | | From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the "Mau Mau" rebellion against British colonial rule. |
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| | USNews.com: Nation and World: Germany gets a new chancellor (10/13/05) |
| | The agreement between the conservative Christian Democratic Union and the left-leaning Social Democratic Party spells the end of a seven-year run for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a Social Democratic leader who clashed with the Bush administration over the Iraq war and championed a stronger Europe. | | | The political deal, which still needs to be finalized, followed a closely fought election contest in September that gave the Christian Democrats only a slight edge over their Social Democratic rivals. | | | With no ready alternatives, both of Germany's leading parties began negotiating the terms of a "grand coalition." For Merkel, though, it comes at a heavy price, with eight of the government's 14 ministries going to the Social Democrats. |
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| | Free Democratic Party - The Liberals -- In German | | | Christian Democratic Union, Germany -- In German and English | | | Top Priority - Rebuilding Eastern Germany -- Interview from Deutchland magazine with Rolf Schwanitz, minister of state at the federal chancellery |
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| | Germany (East) Christian Democratic Union - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ... |
| | Gerald Goetting, chairman of the CDU in 1987, has held that post since May 1966 and has been active in the party since the immediate post-World War II period. | | | Originally CDU members came from the ranks of farmers, craftsmen, small manufacturers, and Christians, both Protestants and Roman Catholics. | | | The CDU is the only party in East Germany with a counterpart of the same name in West Germany; both parties have the same roots. |
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| | CDU Deutschlands |
| | EU-Citizens and people, who live more than three years in Germany, are welcome as party members in the CDU. | | | welcome to the CDU federal party headquarters, the service center of the CDU Germany. | | | Below you can learn, how you can contest our federal election or how you can support the CDU on the spot. |
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| | CDU Deutschlands / Englisch / Reflections on European Policy II |
| | At its congress in early December 2003 in Leipzig, the CDU’s response to these changed parameters was to launch its reform programme for the country’s social security systems: "Changing Germany Fairly”. | | | Now, however, as a result of demographic changes and the impact of globalisation on the working world, they need to be realigned to ensure that health care, old age and nursing care costs continue to be met. | | | CDU programme for reform of social security systems |
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| | The second shows the eagle as it was used on the JU arms, for instance on an election poster in 1957 (from 50 Jahre Junge Union Bayern). | | | As this election poster was a CSU one, not a CDU one, this implies, that perhaps the JU flag was also used by the JU Bayern, at least to some extent. | | | The JU used a flag derived from the then CDU flag, namely on a black background a red cross fimbriated yellow (inside) and red (outside), on the cross a yellow eagle with a shield on the breast; the shield being red with a yellow-fimbriated black cross. |
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| | The struggle for the soul of Germany's troubled Christian Democratic Union escalated as a fierce debate continued over who should assume the party's leadership in the wake of a campaign financing scandal that has demoralized its members. | | | Germany's Crumbling Pillar: Scandal Around Christian Democrats Threatens Nation's Stability | | | Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl before a television interview Dec. 16, 1999. |
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| | Photos of the CDU (Christian Democrats of Germany) incl. | | | Discussion feeds for CDU - Christian Democrats of Germany Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom |
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| | The flag (in use at least since 1999) is dark blue with red inscription 'CDU' and four rectangles of (from left to right) black, red, gold and medium blue, the latter with yellow stars. | | | Black, red and gold are the German national colours and the blue with the yellow stars symbolizes the European Union. |
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