2013 AD., Germany, "Free Democratic Party" advertising chip on the occasion of the 2013 parliament poll, qualified to detach shopping carts and supermarket trolleys.

Germany, "Free Democratic Party" advertising chip on the occasion of the 2013 parliament poll, qualified to detach shopping carts and supermarket trolleys, 2013 AD.,
1 Euro-size chip (23 mm / 0,42 g), yellow coloured plastic with blue imprint label letters,
Obv.: FDP / FDP / FDP / FDP , the party abbreviation and label repeated four times, blue letters "FDP" on a yellow background.
Rev.: (blank).
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The Free Democratic Party (German: Freie Demokratische Partei), abbreviated to FDP, is a liberal and classical liberal political party in Germany. The FDP serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union (Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union) in the German federal government.

The FDP was founded in 1948 by members of the former liberal political parties existing in Germany before World War II, the German Democratic Party and the German People's Party. For most of the Federal Republic's history, it has held the balance of power in the Bundestag. It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU/CSU (1949–56, 1961–66, 1982–98, and since 2009) or the Social Democratic Party (1969–82).

The FDP, which strongly supports human rights, civil liberties, and internationalism, has shifted from the centre to the centre-right over time. Since the 1980s, the party has firmly pushed economic liberalism, and has aligned itself closely to the promotion of free markets and privatisation. It is a member of the Liberal International and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, and is the joint-largest member of the ALDE Group group in the European Parliament.