In
Germany, a voters' association or voter group, is the most common from of electoral groupings on the municipal level. They are variously called
Wählergruppe,
Wählergemeinschaft,
Wählervereinigung or
Wählerinitiative. Common universal names for them include
Unabhängige Wählergemeinschaft (UWG),
Unabhängige Wähler-Vereinigung (UWV) or
Freie Wählergemeinschaft (FWG). Multiple
political parties in Germany, such as
Alliance 90/The Greens or the
Free Voters, trace their origins back to multiple localized voter groups. For the elections to the
European Parliament, non-political party participants are called
sonstige politische Vereinigung (other political associations), abbreviated as SPV; an example of this includes the
Last Generation which participated in the
2024 European Parliament election as
Shaking up Parliament – Voice of the Last Generation. == Italy ==