Humanist Association surveys parties ahead of the 2017 Bundestag elections

Election touchstones focus on the interests of non-denominational and non-religious people as well as the right to equal treatment and self-determination.

A total of twelve sets of questions form the election test stones of the Humanist Association of Germany, which were sent to the parties represented in the German Bundestag and the FDP. The answers are now available.

You can find the parties’ responses in detail or as a PDF at humanistisch.de/x/hvd-bundesverband .

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