(ESM),
Munich, June 2012 In 2011, the PDV participated in the
local elections in
Lower Saxony, winning one seat in the
Flecken Harsefeld municipal council, two seats in the
Samtgemeinde Harsefeld municipal council, and a further seat in the
Bremervörde municipal council. Harald Ebert, member of the
City council of
Erding, and former member of the
Free Democratic Party (FDP), joined the PDV in 2012. The party's first participation in German state elections was in the
2012 North Rhine-Westphalia state election on 13 May 2012, but it did not secure any seats in the
Landtag. The PDV participated
2013 federal election on 22 September 2013, attaining ballot access in four states (
Baden-Württemberg,
Bavaria,
North Rhine-Westphalia and
Rhineland-Palatinate), and winning almost 25,000 second votes (0.1%). The party also fielded a number of direct candidates. == Election results ==