Ballot no. 8
Die PARTEI
Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative
Standing statewide
About the party
Die PARTEI was founded in 2004 by staff of the satirical magazine Titanic and first ran for the Bundestag in 2005. Its programme combines satirical commentary on other parties with exaggerated political symbolism, while positioning itself against right-wing extremism and capitalism and for the Basic Law, shorter working hours, environmental protection and more direct democracy. It has sat in the European Parliament since 2014; its best Berlin result was 2.0% in 2016.
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Lead candidate(s)
Source: Landesliste position 1, Amtsblatt für Berlin Nr. 36, 27 Aug 2026.
Result in 2023
1.4% of second votes (21,570 votes)
Source: Landeswahlleiterin Berlin, 12 Feb 2023 · Data as of 2026-09-11
On the 2026 ballot
14 direct candidates · 0 on district lists · 6 on the state list · 29 on BVV lists
Positions by theme
The same six themes and the same template as on the Berlin-agenda page: the party’s own chapter title, a neutral summary of that chapter, and a link into the original.
The party describes this programme as satire. What it says is quoted, but no positions were coded from it.
Housing & rent
All parties on this theme →Landgewinn ↗web page
Die PARTEI's programme is satire and says so ("changes possible at any time, no post-election guarantee"). On housing it declares that society as a whole has failed and, since referendums are ignored, proposes to expand Berlin's territory to create living space — "through skilful diplomacy or merciless force" — and to end the federal government's "occupation" of Berlin by moving it back to Bonn. It also proposes reopening Tempelhof as an airport. There are no concrete housing measures to code.
Transport & mobility
All parties on this theme →ÖPNV ↗web page
Satirical: a four-lane-per-direction U-Bahn network to make intra-city flights unnecessary, piece rates for train drivers, research into making the smell of urine more pleasant; stop the A100 and turn it into a drive-in cinema, two replacement spaces for every parking space removed, 70 km/h at night on main roads, and bollards at least 2.7 m apart. Not codable as policy.
Migration & participation
All parties on this theme →Polizei und innere Sicherheit ↗web page
Satirical: only FLINTA persons should be eligible for police service in future, which would "drastically reduce the mass of isolated cases" of police violence; "in general we think arming more women is a good idea". Drones, conscription and bunkers are "an unpleasant but important topic — good that we talked about it". Not codable as policy.
Climate & energy
All parties on this theme →Education
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Summaries written 2026-09-11 in neutral wording from the documents linked in each row. They are not the parties’ own texts.
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