Parliamentary Group

Label Parliamentary Group

Description

Parliamentary Groups (Fraktion) are groups of at least five MPs who have similar political views that can come together and from a parliamentary group. They are the groups that the Federal Assembly is divided into, not the parties. Hence, they are the organs that have the ability to sponsor bills.

Attributes

• identifier name: string

  Official name of the group.

• (optional) abbrev: string

  Abbreviation of the group’s name.

• (optional) name_used_since: date

  Date from which the group’s name was used.

Connected relations

Outgoing

• SPONSORS to Bill

Incoming

• ACTING_AS from Person

• MEMBER_OF from Person

Constraints

• A Parliamentary Group must contain the attributes ‘abbrev’, ‘name_used_since’

Visual Representation