Fraktion (Bundestag)

Fraktion (English: faction or fraction) is the name given to recognized parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag.

[2] As there is also a 5% election threshold, with parties over this threshold usually getting assigned more than 5% of the seats, almost all groups can nearly automatically declare themselves factions, but due to conflicts, or as a result of below-threshold access granted to regional groups, this is not always the case.

Also, even a group has to have at least three members to become recognized as a Gruppe and gain more rights than the individuals have.

In the early years of the Bundestag, 1949 to 1960, several parties had faction or group status before disappearing.

After that, the only groups existing were formed by members of the former SED: