Politics of Baden-Württemberg

The Green Alternative Freiburg (German: Grüne Alternative Freiburg), GAF for short, is a local political party in the German city of Freiburg im Breisgau, which split off from The Greens in the City Council in 2008.

The Landtag of Baden-Württemberg is the diet of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It convenes in Stuttgart and currently consists of 154 members of five political parties. The majority before the 2021 election was a coalition of the Alliance 90/The Greens and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), supporting the cabinet of Green Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann.

The Landtag of Württemberg-Hohenzollern was the first freely elected Parliament of the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern following the states formation after the second World War inside of the French zone of occupation. The Landtag was the body succeeding the Advisory State Assembly of Württemberg-Hohenzollern [de], the convention composed of municipal delegates was tasked with drafting a constitution for the state. The first election to the Landtag was held simultaneously with the referendum over the adpotion of the constitution drafted by the Advisory State Assembly on 18 May 1947.

The CDU Baden-Württemberg is the political party with the most members in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the second largest state party (in German, Landespartei or Landesverband) of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany with almost 65,000 members. Its chairman is Thomas Strobl, who succeeded Stefan Mappus after the lost 2011 election.