The Human Environment Animal Protection Party is a political party in Germany, founded in 1993. In 2014, one of the party's candidates was elected to the European Parliament, and one candidate was elected again in 2019. The party's only EU representative resigned from the party in February 2020 and since this date the party has had no members in the European Parliament. The party has never had any members in any of the German state parliaments, nor has it ever had any members of the Bundestag.
Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative, or Die PARTEI, is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election, the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott.
Animal Welfare Party (AWP) is a minor political party in the United Kingdom campaigning on an animal welfare, environment and health platform.
Free Voters is a political party in Germany. It originates as an umbrella organisation of several Free Voters Associations, associations of people which participate in an election without having the status of a registered party. These associations are usually locally-organised groups of voters in the form of a registered association (eV). In most cases, Free Voters campaign only at local government level, standing for city councils and for mayoralties. Free Voters tend to achieve their most successful electoral results in rural areas of southern Germany, appealing most to conservative voters who prefer local decisions to party politics. Free Voter groups are active in all of the states of Germany.
Bernd Lucke is a German economist, professor, author and former politician. He was a co-founder of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in 2013 and served as the party's federal chairman. He was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for AfD in 2014.
Julia Klöckner is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. Since 2012, she has also been part of the CDU leadership.
We Citizens is a political party in Germany. Formerly Liberal Conservative Reformers, it was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA.
Animal Politics EU, formerly Euro Animal 7, is a group of animal rights parties in European Union countries.
The Party of Humanists is a minor political party in Germany that first participated in the 2017 federal election. It is considered left-of-centre and supports socially liberal and secular policies, such as a federal European state, openness towards technologies such as stem cell research and strict separation between state and religion. The party contested the 2017 and 2021 federal elections, the 2019 European elections and numerous state elections from 2018 onwards. It also contested the 2024 European elections.
Nico Semsrott is a German Kabarett artist, slam poet, and politician. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 as a member of Die PARTEI, but left the party in 2021, and sat as an independent.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Germany was held on 9 June 2024. It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. The election saw the CDU/CSU slightly increase its vote share, while all three parties comprising the government — the SPD, the Greens and the FDP — earned fewer votes than five years ago, with the Greens in particular suffering especially high losses. Conversely, the far-right AfD surged in both votes and seats, finishing second. There was a stark regional disparity: The AfD won at least a plurality in all but six districts in former East Germany:. The newly formed left-populist party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht also attracted a significant number of voters, with its support also being highest in the former East German states.
Alliance C – Christians for Germany is a Christian Conservative political party in Germany, which was established in 2015 as a result of the amalgamation of Partei Bibeltreuer Christen and the AUF - Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie. The party professes to adhere to the Apostles' Creed and the Old and New Testaments.
The Party for Animal Welfare is a minor political party in Ireland, with a focus on animal welfare. It has no representation at local or national level.
Zoe Mayer is a German engineer and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the Bundestag, the parliament of Germany, since the 2021 German federal election. She was directly elected as member of parliament for Karlsruhe-Stadt.
Volt Austria is a socialliberal political party in Austria and the Austrian chapter of Volt Europa a progressive and Eurofederalist pan-European political party and movement.
Gisela Elisabeth Bulla was a German archaeologist, author, and politician. She authored several books on the subject of domestic animals. From March 1995 to September 2000, she was also the federal chairwoman of the Human Environment Animal Protection Party.
The Action Party for Animal Welfare is a minor political party in Germany.
Thomas Mosmann is a German politician and LGBT rights activist. He was the city, district, and state leader of the Alliance for Human Rights, Animal and Nature Protection, as well as the party's lead candidate for the 2017 German federal election in Baden-Württemberg until leaving the party along with 15 other members over disagreements with the federal board.
The Party of Progress is a political party in Germany founded in Cologne in 2020. While the party sees itself as being beyond the left–right political spectrum, it is classified as left-liberal by political scientists.
Lukas Sieper is a German politician who is leader of the Party of Progress. In the 2024 European Parliament election, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament.
