Youth party

Youth parties or even children and youth parties are politically independent parties that represent the interests of schoolchildren, students, children and young people. They cannot be compared with political youth organizations that are closely associated with or belong to parties, as youth parties are separate parties with different positions and programs.

Youth parties are mostly only politically active in the municipal area, because there the active and passive right to vote is partly achieved by the age of 16 . The parties mostly only devote themselves to regional issues such as the establishment of a youth center . Often, youth parties do not have the status of a party in the sense of the German Political Parties Act (PartG), but rather they join together as electoral associations , which is associated with considerably less effort.

There have been youth parties in Germany since November 22, 1997. At that time, the future! Party was founded in Magdeburg . - the youth party founded, which is now called Future! is represented in the Magdeburg city council.

Since then, further independently acting youth parties have been founded nationwide, some of which have already been dissolved. Since then, further independently acting youth parties have been founded nationwide, some of which have already been dissolved.

In Germany there are or have been the following youth parties:

In Switzerland there was a youth party in the legislature in Winterthur from 1966 to 1974 with the Junge Löwen . She made headlines when she entered the local council with the election of the youngest member of the local parliament in Switzerland.