Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Sep. 19. Political Parties

The group I was in was to look up a general overview of all the political parties in Germany; past and present. To narrow down the search we choose to elaborate more on the parties that were not already assigned to be presented in class for the upcoming week. There-fore we found information on these particular parties, the Left Party, Christian Social Union;known as CSU, German People's Union; also called DVU, the National Democratic Party; commonly known as the Neo Natiz, as well as the Repubilkaner party. We also did look up some information on the main groups, most of which were already assigned to other groups, such as, the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party, as well as the Christian Democratic Union.

The work I did was mostly on the Christian Social Union, the Green Party, Social Democratic Party and the Christian Democratic Union. For the Christian Social Union there was quite a good amount of information available via internet. I was able to find that this particular party is a sister party to the larger party known as the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). When comparing the two parties the Christian Social Union is more conservative than the Christian Democratic Union. Mainly they differ on the topics such as abortion and immigration. This group I found was founded in 1946, and the parties current leader is Edmund Stoiber. Edmund Stoiber took the position in the year 1998. This information I found on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4219274.stm. I also found that even though it is a sister party to the CDU they are often at odds on mostly political issues. This information bit I found at http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/where-do-they-stand-a-quick-guide-to-germany-s-political-parties-a-651388.html. For the Left Party, I found information that told how the party came about. Including, that the merger in 2007 to create the party was between the Party of Democratic Socialism and WASG, which was the communist party of Eastern Germany. This information was taken from, http://www.merkur-online.de/nachrichten/politik/kampf-meinungsfuehrerschaft-opposition-502378.html. For the Green party I found information on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4219274.stm, Some of which was very insightful. I found that they mainly focus on environmental issues, and that they were established in 1980.

The party in which I think is odd is the Green party. I find it interesting that a party can think that they can base their political party on mainly the environment. Such as I previously said, on the news.bbc.co.uk web page I found that they mainly focus on environmental issues. 

Our group had too many time conflicting schedules for us all to be in one place at the same time. Therefore I created a google docs on which we colaborated our information that we found. I then put all the information that was then posted on the doc into a power point and organized the information into a way that was presentable and looked informative. I then let the link be public so that each person could post the link onto their page.


Political Parties