Alliance C – Christians for Germany

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Alliance C – Christians for Germany Bündnis C – Christen für Deutschland
Spokesperson	Karin Heepen
Founded	28 March 2015; 6 years ago (2015-03-28)
Merger of	Party of Bible-abiding Christians (PBC) Party for Labour, Environment and Family (AUF)
Headquarters	Karlsruhe
Newspaper	EINDRUCK – das Magazin für Politik von Bündnis C
Membership (2019)	3,000
Ideology	Christian democracy Conservatism Christian fundamentalism
Political position	Right-wing
European affiliation	European Christian Political Movement
Bundestag	0 / 709
European Parliament	0 / 96
Website
buendnis-c.de
Politics of Germany Political parties Elections

Alliance C – Christians for Germany (German: Bündnis C – Christen für Deutschland) is a political party in Germany.

History[]

At the founding party conference in Fulda in March 2015, the Party for Labour, Environment and Family (AUF) and Party of Bible-abiding Christians (PBC) merged to form Alliance C – Christians for Germany – AUF & PBC. Ole Steffes (formerly PBC) and Karin Heepen (formerly AUF) were elected Federal Chairmen with equal rights.^[1]

The party stood for the first time in the state election in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 and achieved 0.7% in the state constituency of Enz. In the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016, it received 842 votes, which corresponds to 0.1% of the votes. In the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2016, the party won a mandate in both Wedemark and Bad Essen. At the party congress on October 22, 2016, the members decided to delete the suffix "AUF & PBC".

An attempted candidacy for the 2017 Bundestag election with eight state lists failed due to a lack of support signatures, so that the party could only put up direct candidates in four constituencies. These achieved results between 0.2% and 0.4% of the votes.

In autumn 2018, MEP Arne Gericke joined Alliance C.^[2] Gericke was elected for the Family Party in 2014 and initially switched to the Free Voters in mid-2017. Gericke has been an individual member of the ECPM since 2014, which also includes Alliance C.

Ideology[]

Alliance C, according to its own statements, is based on Christian ethics and principles that have shaped the liberal-democratic constitutional State. The party advocates "Christian-conservative positions in family, social, educational and foreign policy", including in particular the "fight against abortions and positions of gender mainstreaming and an idealization of marriage and family as a godly connection of men and women, the introduction of an education salary for parents, the support of homeschooling, a strengthening of the nations and criticism of international and supranational alliances such as the UN and the EU, and unconditional support for Israel's right to exist".

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