Government1 (Germany)
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     Elections:
       Federal Diet:
         last held 2 December 1990 (next to be held October 1994); results - CDU
         36.7%, SPD 33.5%, FDP 11.0%, CSU 7.1%, Green Party (West Germany) 3.9%, PDS
         2.4%, Republikaner 2.1%, Alliance 90/Green Party (East Germany) 1.2%, other
         2.1%; seats - (662 total, 656 statutory with special rules to allow for
         slight expansion) CDU 268, SPD 239, FDP 79, CSU 51, PDS 17, Alliance
         90/Green Party (East Germany) 8; note - special rules for this election
         allowed former East German parties to win seats if they received at least 5%
         of vote in eastern Germany
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     Communists:
         West - about 40,000 members and supporters; East - about 200,000 party
         members (December 1991)
     Other political or pressure groups:
         expellee, refugee, and veterans groups
     Member of:
         AfDB, AG (observer), AsDB, BDEAC, BIS, CCC, CE, CERN, COCOM, CSCE, EBRD, EC,
         ECE, EIB, ESA, FAO, G-5, G-7, G-10, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC,
         ICFTU, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL,
         IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, LORCS, NATO, NEA, OAS (observer), OECD, PCA, UN, UNCTAD,
         UNESCO, UNIDO, UNHCR, UPU, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
     Diplomatic representation:
         Ambassador Dr. Immo STABREIT will become Ambassador in late summer/early
         fall 1992; Chancery at 4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007;
         telephone (202) 298-4000; there are German Consulates General in Atlanta,
         Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and
         New York, and Consulates in Miami and New Orleans
       US:
         Ambassador Robert M. KIMMITT; Embassy at Deichmanns Avenue, 5300 Bonn 2
         (mailing address is APO AE 09080); telephone [49] (228) 3391; there is a US
         Branch Office in Berlin and US Consulates General in Frankfurt, Hamburg,
         Leipzig, Munich, and Stuttgart
     Flag:
         three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and yellow