Basic Income Alliance

Basic Income Alliance

Bündnis Grundeinkommen
Basic Income Alliance Bündnis Grundeinkommen
Abbreviation	BGE
Leader	Martin Sonnabend
Founded	25 September 2016
Headquarters	Driesener Straße 10; 10439 Berlin, Germany
Ideology	Universal basic income
Website
	www.buendnis-grundeinkommen.de
	Politics of Germany; Political parties; Elections;

The Basic Income Alliance (German: Bündnis Grundeinkommen, abbreviated BGE) is a German single-issue political party that advocates for an unconditional basic income.^[1] It was founded in September 2016 in Munich.^[2] The Basic Income Alliance gained 97,539 votes at the German federal election 2017 and reached 0.2%.

Overview

The Basic Income Alliance sees an unconditional basic income as a central possibility to counteract what it sees as a widening income gap. Technical progress, the automation of production processes, the resulting unemployment and low-paid gainful employment lead to a division in society that must be overcome in order to maintain social peace.

Election	Chamber	Votes	Vote %
2017 Saarland state election	State Landtag	286	0.1%
2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election	State Landtag	5,260	0.1%
2017 German federal election	Bundestag	97,539^[3]	0.2%
2017 Lower Saxony state election	State Landtag	5,125	0.1%
2019 European Parliament election	European Parliament	40,834^[4]	0.1%
2019 Bremen state election	Bürgerschaft of Bremen	5,939^[5]	0.4%
2019 Thuringia state election	Landtag of Thuringia	2,700	0.2%

There are a number of other political parties in other countries that are formed solely around a universal basic income proposal. These include:

Other political parties also include universal basic income among their policies but do not exclusively focus on it.