Free Besmenian Citizen's Party

Free Besmenian Citizen's Party Freie Besmenische Bürgerpartei
Leader	Manuel Gonnsheim
Founded	28 May 1930 (as Free Liberals of Besmenia)
Headquarters	Heraldsteinstraße 76, Laitstadt
Think tank	Albrecht Neumann Foundation
Ideology	Liberalism Democratic liberalism Classical liberalism Direct democracy Historical: National liberalism Libertarianism Liberal conservatism
Colors	Yellow
Federal Chamber	88 / 427

The Free Besmenian Citizen's Party (Besmenian: Freie Besmenische Bürgerpartei, FBBP) is a liberal party in Besmenia.

The FBBP was founded in 1930 under the name Free Liberals of Besmenia, after the Besmenian Democratic Party and the Besmenian Freedom Party merged into a common party. As early as the 1928 East Besmenian federal election, both parties stood for election as a party alliance under the name Free Liberals of Besmenia. In 1940 it was renamed to Free Besmenian Citzen's Party. While the FBBP pursued a right-wing liberal and libertarian policy from its foundation until the mid-1960s, the transformation into a more centric-liberal party began in 1964 under the party leader Jürgen Rothmann. From 1964 to 1993 and again since 2020, the party has the suffix The Liberals .The party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Besmenia along with the Besmenian People's Party. The FBBP has been represented in the Federal Chamber since 1930.

Ideology and policies

Political scientists call the FBBP a classic party of the middle.

Election results

Election	Prime Minister Candidate	Votes in %	Seats	Government
2001	Laura Kummstein	35,8% (#1)	154 / 427	FBBP-SDU majority
2005	Laura Kummstein	31,2% (#1)	135 / 427	FBBP-BVP majority
2009	Laura Kummstein	34,9% (#1)	150 / 427	FBBP-BVP majority
2012	Laura Kummstein	23% (#2)	100 / 427	Opposition
2016	Frank Hille	25,9% (#2)	112 / 427	BVP-FBBP majority
2020	Frank Hille	28,2% (#2)	122 / 427	BVP-FBBP majority
2021	Manuel Goonsheim	20,2% (#2)	88 / 427	Opposition

Leaders of the FBBP since 1925

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	State	Prime Minister
1	File:Jürgen Keiner.jpg	Jürgen Keiner (1881–1974)	28 May 1930	15 March 1932	1 year, 292 days	North Lemberland	Heinz Dimmler
2		Anton Zimmermann (1879–1958)	15 March 1932	1 June 1936	4 years, 78 days	Lower Besmenia	Heinz Dimmler
3	File:Siegfried Kemmerich.jpg	Siegfried Kemmerich (1886–1979)	1 June 1936	9 February 1945	8 years, 253 days	Laitstadt	Heinz Dimmler Friedrich Bock Albrecht Neumann
4		Albrecht Neumann (1878–1969)	9 February 1945	18 February 1959	14 years, 9 days	North Lemberland	Himself Günther Brecht
5	File:Jakob Heckerfeld.jpg	Jakob Heckerfeld (1904–1990)	18 February 1959	6 March 1964	5 years, 17 days	Trissia	Günther Brecht Wolfgang Butz
6		Jürgen Rothmann (1920–2004)	6 March 1964	22 March 1980	16 years, 16 days	Summingia	Wolfgang Butz Johannes Schmidt Robert Gleitzmann
7		Martin Beiter (1945–1991)	22 March 1980	5 February 1991 †	10 years, 320 days	Trissia	Robert Gleitzmann Himself
8		Heinz Maurich (1941–)	5 February 1991	5 November 1999	8 years, 273 days	Greuningia	Kurt Stöger Erik Tautenbach
9		Laura Kummstein (1950–)	5 November 1999	14 May 2016	16 years, 191 days	Laitstadt	Erik Tautenbach Herself Theodor Sidemann
10		Frank Hille (1962–)	14 May 2016	25 April 2021	4 years, 346 days	Trissia	Theodor Sidemann
11	File:Manuel Gonnsheim.png	Manuel Gonnsheim (1959–)	25 April 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 213 days	Metakumburg	Theodor Sidemann Richard Benkel

Logos since 1925

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  1930-1940

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  1940-1964

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  1964-1993

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  1993-2003

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  2003-2020