- Bavaria Party
The Bavaria Party ( _de. Bayernpartei) is a
political party in the state ofBavaria in southernGermany . It was founded in 1946 and describes itself as patriotic Bavarian, advocating Bavarian independence within theEuropean Union . Together with theChristian Social Union it can be seen as an heir to theBavarian People's Party which existed prior toWorld War II . The party had some successes at the polls in the late 1940s and 1950s: 20.9 % of the vote in 1949 and 17 seats in the GermanBundestag and, in 1950, 17.9 % and 39 seats in the Bavarian state parliament where it formed a coalition with the Bavarian branches of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany and theFree Democratic Party . This forced theChristian Social Union out of power for three years. Later, the Bavaria Party rapidly lost voters. It still exists but was last elected to the Bavarian state parliament in 1962. In the 2008 local elections, however, the party won 38 seats (compared to 32 in 2002), mostly inUpper Bavaria , including one of the 80 seats in the City Council ofMunich , the 1.3 million capital, after 32 years of absence there. The current chairman of the party is Florian Weber fromRegensburg in theUpper Palatinate .References
See also:
List of political parties in Germany External links
* [http://www.bayernpartei.de Bavaria Party web site (in German)]
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