GERMAN FEDERAL ELECTIONS

September 18, 2005

All you need to know about the German Federal Elections
Info and background in English	the AICGS glossary, vital. Start here. From the horse's mouth. German GovFAQ on the September election. Lots of good links Good NPR background story by Kyle James here. 8/16 (Realplayer) BBC on the announcement about early elections. CNN same. DW similar. History lesson on all postwar elections. The players; folks you need to know. latest polls in English general German news and background in English from Spiegel news weekly
German Parties	CDU [Christian Democrats] [CDU in English ] CSU [Christian Social Union--Bavarian version of CDU] SPD [Social Democrats] FDP [The Liberals] Bündnis 90/Die Grünen [The Greens] Die Linke [communist successor PDS and left SPD defectors]
German official offices	The Bundeswahlleiter [Federal Elections Office, the legal stuff] the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Supreme Court)
Portals	Deutsche Parteien und Politiker DIE ZEIT news weekly special pages on the election Süddeutsche Zeitung special election pages American Institute on Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) special election pages be sure and read this glossary
News Sources	Deutsche-Welle (TV and Radio live-feeds in English and German) Heute Tagesthemen, Tagesschau portal of German Radio stations on-line Deutschlandfunk Deutschlandradio Kultur
Polls	latest polls in English Forschungsgruppe Wahlen ZDF Politbarometer

This temporary page written by Scott Denham, August 2005. Copyright Davidson College 2005