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Major vs Minor party

In the "Represented in the European Parliament" section parties are split into major and minor parties. However, Volt, categorized as a minor party, won more votes and more seats than FW (Free Voters), yet the latter is categorized as a major party. I propose categorizing the Free Voters as a minor party as well. They may be a junior government partner in one state and have minimal representation in two more states (one of those since last week) but that doesn't make them major, especially in the context of the European Parliament. Not when Volt as a EU wide party has seats in the national government of the Netherlands. ---2001:9E8:991:8500:F532:20C8:FE63:50F4 (talk) 14:33, 5 September 2024 (UTC) Rafin[reply]

Template name

Shouldn't the template be named "Parrties in the German Budestag" or something like that? The numbers denote their Budestag membership, though there's no way to know this if you don't already; and there are a number of German parties with elected represesntatives on the state level that aren't listed here. --Jfruh (talk) 02:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that this template should be limited in its scope to parties that have seats in the Federal Diet. There are parties which should IMHO be listed here although have no seats in the Federal Diet (yet), such as the Pirate Party (they're likely to enter the House of Representatives (state parliament) of Berlin after the 2011-09-18 elections and they already had one person in the Federal Diet before), the Free Voters (They used to limit their scope to local politics, but now they run in federal and state elections as well) and the "National Democratic Party of Germany" (infamous far right party that most people want to see banned). -- 217.229.51.13 (talk) 11:29, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a collapsible list of all the other parties with Wikipedia articles. Bastin 17:08, 14 September 2011 (UTC)