Abstract
The second election to the EP was held in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 17 June 1984. The date has a political significance in the FRG as the ‘day of national unity’ although this played no role in the election. As in 1979 the election was only held in the FRG for 78 MEPs, while the remaining one SPD and two CDU MEPs were selected from the Berlin Chamber of Deputies. The main distinction from 1979 lay in the intervening change of power at the federal level. Helmut Schmidt’s centre-left SPD/FDP coalition had been replaced in September 1982 by a centre-right CDU/CSU/FDP coalition under Helmut Kohl. This set the scene for what proved to be a nationally-orientated campaign.
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Bulmer, S., Paterson, W.E. (1986). The Federal Republic of Germany. In: Lodge, J. (eds) Direct Elections to the European Parliament 1984. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18090-5_10
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