The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right in German politics.
1949 election poster of the CDU reading "The Rescue: CDU"
The election poster of 1957 reading "No experiments" and featuring then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (This was the only federal election in which the CDU obtained an absolute majority in the Bundestag.)
East German CDU leader Lothar de Maizière (left) with West German CDU leader Helmut Kohl in September 1990
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Germany is a democratic and federal parliamentary republic, where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat.
Joschka Fischer in the 2005 elections
Former chancellor: Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats
Olaf Scholz, chancellor since 2021