CDU/CSU
Sign in to saveCDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties ( ) or the Union, is a centre-right Christian democratic and conservative political alliance of two political parties in Germany: the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).
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- CDU/CSU
- Political party.logo
- Logo-cdu-csu-2024.svg
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- 200
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- Chairmen
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- Parliamentary leader
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- Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU Group)
- Political party.youth_wing
- Young Union
- Political party.position
- Centre-right
- Political party.european
- European People's Party
- Political party.international
- International Democracy Union
- Political party.europarl
- European People's Party Group
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- Alliance parties
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- Bundestag
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- State Parliaments
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- European Parliament
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- Heads of State Governments
- Political party.country
- Germany
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Predecessors
- CSU ambitions to become a nationwide party
- Tensions in 2016–2021
- 2025 comeback
- Political stances
- Forms of cooperation
- Leaders of the Group in the Bundestag
- Electoral history
- Federal Parliament (''Bundestag'')
- European Parliament
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties ( ) or the Union, is a centre-right Christian democratic and conservative political alliance of two political parties in Germany: the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).
The CSU contests elections only in Bavaria, while the CDU operates in the other 15 states of Germany. The CSU also reflects the particular concerns of the largely rural, Catholic south. While the two Christian Democratic parties are commonly described as sister parties, they have shared a common parliamentary group, the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, in the German Bundestag () since the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. According to German Federal Electoral Law, members of a parliamentary group which share the same basic political aims must not compete with one another in any federal state.