22 Facts About Die PARTEI

1.

Amongst other things, the PARTEI parodies existing parties' features and election tactics and its parody events sometimes include visiting other parties' events.

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Die PARTEI refers to itself as a haven for voters disappointed by other parties.

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3.

For instance, the Die PARTEI successfully effected reforms of German party financing by selling 100-euro notes for €105.

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4.

Titanic, whose employees would go on to populate the ranks of the Die PARTEI, began its political activities even before German reunification in 1990 — it campaigned against it.

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5.

Die PARTEI held out the prospect of a referendum after the PARTEI's accession to power.

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6.

Additionally, the Die PARTEI is demanding health care reform, protection of natural resources and a program for reduction of working time as an alternative to Agenda 2010, an unpopular set of labor market reforms introduced under Chancellor Schroeder in 2003.

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7.

Die PARTEI was founded on 2 August 2004, by the editors of Titanic, a Frankfurt-based satirical magazine.

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8.

The leadership of the Die PARTEI and the Titanic editorial team are close; former Titanic editors-in-chief include Die PARTEI chairman, Martin Sonneborn, and current honorary chairman, Oliver Maria Schmitt.

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Die PARTEI has participated in four federal elections and most state and municipal elections since 2005, achieving its best results in a few districts in Berlin and Hamburg without however doing well enough to gain any seats.

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In June 2005, the Die PARTEI joined forces with the Anarchist Pogo Party in an alliance called Zweckbundnis for the 2005 federal election.

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11.

Die PARTEI criticised lack of seriousness and organisation within the party.

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12.

Die PARTEI claimed his decision was based on a fax by Die PARTEI which expressed that there is just one single Landesverband .

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13.

Die PARTEI rejoined that no such fax existed and announced legal action.

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14.

Die PARTEI saw itself validated by Bundestag President Norbert Lammert's maiden speech in which he criticized the election registration process, because "representatives of the established parties decide whether or not to register the competition".

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15.

Rodrigo Gonzalez, Hella von Sinnen, Dirk Bach, and Guildo Horn all had their pictures taken with top-flight officials from the Die PARTEI to express their support during the 2010 state election.

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Die PARTEI participated in state elections in Berlin, Hamburg and Baden-Wurttemberg in 2011.

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17.

The Die PARTEI did best in the Kleiner Grasbrook district, where it attracted 39 votes, or 5.

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18.

Die PARTEI took part in municipal elections in North Rhine Westphalia on 30 August 2009, garnering 0.

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19.

In 2012 Dirk Scholl, former member of Die Linke, defected to the PARTEI in the city council of Saarlouis.

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20.

On 3 September 2017, members of Die PARTEI assumed full control over 31 secret Facebook groups dedicated to the AfD, a right-wing party, by infiltrating those groups and ascending to the rank of a group administrator.

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21.

In November 2020 MP Marco Bulow joined the Die PARTEI, which entered the Bundestag for the first time in its history.

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22.

Die PARTEI said he believed that they were "not the craziest party in the European Parliament".

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