Mut (political party)

German political party

FoundedJune 2017

HeadquartersMunich

Mut

Founders	Claudia Stamm Stephan Lessenich
Founded	June 2017
Split from	Alliance 90/The Greens
Headquarters	Munich
Ideology	Ecologism Social liberalism
Political position	Centre-left
European affiliation	Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
Website

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Mut (transl. courage) is a German political party founded in June 2017 by Claudia Stamm and Stephan Lessenich.^[1]

Since 2009, Stamm has been associated with the Greens as a Member of Parliament. She resigned in March 2017 and formed Mut on 1 June 2017 with Lessenich and others. Mut is a federal party and is based in Munich. Apart from Stamm and Lessenich, the board members include Nicole Britz and Alex Schweiger, the treasurer. Britz is the former Chairman of the Pirate Party of Bavaria.

Other known members of the political party are Renate Ackermann and Matthias Matuschik.

It is the youngest political party to participate in the Bavarian state elections of 2018. Initially, the party had problems finding eligible candidates to contest in the election but they fulfilled the requirement. Among 44 out of 91 constituencies, Mut party had direct candidates.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Spektakulärer Austritt: Claudia Stamm bricht mit den Grünen". merkur.de (in German). 22 March 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
↑ Auer, Katja (2018). "Claudia Stamm fehlen gute Kandidaten für die Wahl". sueddeutsche.de (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
↑ "AS IT HAPPENED: Bavarian Elections 2018". 14 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.

Political parties in Germany

Represented in the Bundestag
(630 seats)

CDU (164)
AfD (152)
SPD (120)
The Greens (85)
The Left (64)
CSU (44)
SSW (1)

Represented in the
European Parliament
(96 seats for Germany)

Major parties	CDU (23) AfD (15) SPD (14) The Greens (12) CSU (6) BSW (6) FDP (5) The Left (3) FW (3)
Minor parties	Volt (3) Die PARTEI (2) PMUT (1) ÖDP (1) Family Party (1) Party of Progress (1)

Represented in the
16 state parliaments
(1,893 seats)

Major parties	SPD (458, 16/16) CDU (523, 15/16, not in Bavaria) AfD (275, 14/16) The Greens (291, 13/16) FDP (80, 9/16) The Left (66, 7/16) BSW (47, 6/16) FW (44, 3/16)
Regional parties	CSU (85; only in Bavaria) SSW (4; only in Schleswig-Holstein)
Minor parties	BD (7; in Bremen) Values Union (1; in Lower Saxony)

Minor parties
(without representation
at the state level or above)

Alliance C
Animal Protection Alliance
APPD
Basic Income Alliance
Bavaria Party
Bergpartei, die ÜberPartei
BüSo
BVB/FW
Centre Party
DAVA
Democracy in Motion
dieBasis
DSU
Feminist Party
Free Saxony
German Communist Party
Last Generation
Marxist–Leninist Party
Party of Reason
Pirates
Socialist Equality Party
Statt Party
The Homeland
The Humanists
The Third Path
The Republicans
The Urbans
Verjüngungsforschung
V-Partei3
Wir Bürger

Notes:

CDU: does not participate in state elections in Bavaria, an associated party CSU participates here.
AfD: is currently not in the state parliaments of Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein.
The Greens: are currently not in the state parliaments of Brandenburg, Saarland and Thuringia.
FDP: is currently only in the state parliaments of Baden-Württemberg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein.
The Left: is currently only in the state parliaments of Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia.
BSW: is currently only in the state parliaments of Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, and Thuringia.
FW: is currently only in the state parliaments of Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony; does not participate in state elections in Brandenburg, an associated party BVB/FW participates here.

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