In German politics, a traffic light coalition is a coalition government of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Alliance 90/The Greens. It is named after the parties' traditional colours, respectively red, yellow, and green, matching the colour sequence of a traffic light (Ampel). The term is also used for similar coalitions between social democrats, liberals and greens in other countries.
Traffic lights in Kassel. The three colours of the traffic lights are the colours of the parties in a "traffic light coalition".
Free Democratic Party (Germany)
The Free Democratic Party is a liberal political party in Germany.
Theodor Heuss, first chairman of the FDP and first President of West Germany
"Schlußstrich drunter!"—FDP election campaign poster reading "Draw a line under it" before the 1949 Bundestag election in Hesse calling for a halt to "denazification, disenfranchisement, disempowerment, second class citizenship" and for "equality of civil rights"
Walter Scheel served as Foreign Minister, Vice Chancellor, Acting Chancellor and President of Germany.
Christian Lindner is the party chairman, having succeeded Philipp Rösler in December 2013.