Party of Bible-abiding Christians

Political party in Germany

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The Party of Bible-abiding Christians (German: Partei Bibeltreuer Christen, PBC) was a conservative evangelical minor right-wing political party in Germany. It was founded in 1989 during a convent of the Federation of Pentecostal Churches to serve as political arm of the Christian right in Germany. It was against same-sex marriage and legality of abortion. It supported a reference to God in the European Constitution and it strongly supported Israel. In March 2015, the PBC merged with the Party for Labour, Environment and Family (AUF) into the Alliance C – Christians for Germany.

Most members were from Württemberg or Saxony and were members or sympathizers of what Germans call "Freikirche" (Free Church), i.e., Protestants from Pentecostal and Charismatic sects, which are not affiliated with the large Lutheran Protestant Church in Germany.

The party's success, however, was very limited on the federal and state levels of government because it never reached the "5% hurdle" of votes cast necessary to get into the parliaments in Germany's system of proportional representation. In the last federal election the PBC participated (2013), the party achieved 0.0 percent of votes.^[1]

By contrast, the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union in Bavaria are powerful political forces in Germany (based on the number of votes and offices held). They differ greatly from the former PBC though in accepting secularization and being traditionally close to the Protestant Church in Germany and the Roman Catholic Church.

The party was a member of the European Christian Political Movement (EPCM).

Election results

Federal Parliament (Bundestag)

Election	Constituency			Party list			Seats	Status
Election	Votes	%	+/-	Votes	%	+/-	Seats	Status
1994	65,651 (#12)	0.14	New	26,864 (#11)	0.06	New	0 / 631	Extra-parliamentary
1998	71,941 (#15)	0.15	0.01	46,379 (#11)	0.09	0.03	0 / 631	Extra-parliamentary
2002	101,645 (#12)	0.21	0.06	71,106 (#10)	0.15	0.06	0 / 631	Extra-parliamentary
2005	108,605 (#12)	0.23	0.02	57,027 (#9)	0.12	0.03	0 / 631	Extra-parliamentary
2009	40,370 (#17)	0.09	0.14	12,052 (#17)	0.03	0.09	0 / 631	Extra-parliamentary
2013	18,542 (#21)	0.04	0.05	2,081 (#24)	0.00	0.03	0 / 631	Extra-parliamentary

References

^ "Übersicht". Archived from the original on 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2018-03-13. (Official election results in Germany are rounded to one digit behind the decimal point, which results in parties with less than 0.05 of votes being listed with an official result of 0.0 percent.)

Political parties in Germany

Represented in the Bundestag
(735 seats)

SPD (206)
CDU (152)
The Greens (118)
FDP (91)
AfD (80)
CSU (45)
The Left (28)
BSW (10)
SSW (1)

Represented in the European Parliament
(96 seats for Germany)

Major parties	SPD (16) CDU (23) The Greens (21) FDP (5) AfD (9) CSU (6) The Left (5) Free Voters (2)
Minor parties	Die PARTEI (1) ÖDP (1) Family Party (1) Bündnis Deutschland (1) Pirate Party (1) Volt (1)

Represented in the 16 state parliaments

Major parties	SPD (16/16) CDU (15/16; not in Bavaria) The Greens (15/16) FDP (12/16) AfD (15/16) The Left (8/16) Free Voters (2/16)
Regional parties	CSU (85; only in Bavaria) BVB/Free Voters (5; only in Brandenburg) SSW (4; only in Schleswig-Holstein) BD (9; only in Bremen and Saxony) BfTh (2; only in Thuringia)

Minor parties (without representation
above the district level)

Notes:

CDU: does not participate in the state election in Bavaria; instead, an associated party CSU is participating here.
Greens: are currently not in the state parliament of the Saarland
FDP: is currently not in state parliaments of Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Saarland and Saxony.
AfD: is currently not in the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Left: is currently not in the state parliaments of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein.
Free Voters: are currently only in the state parliaments of Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate.