Basic Income Alliance

Not to be confused with Basic Income Party.

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%.

Basic Income Alliance Bündnis Grundeinkommen
Abbreviation	BGE
Leader	Martin Sonnabend
Founded	25 September 2016; 8 years ago (2016-09-25)
Headquarters	Driesener Straße 10 10439 Berlin, Germany
Ideology	Universal basic income
Website
www.buendnis-grundeinkommen.de
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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 results

Election	Chamber	Votes	Vote %	Seats
2017 Saarland state election	State Landtag	286	0.1%	0
2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election	State Landtag	5,260	0.1%	0
2017 German federal election	Bundestag	97,539[3]	0.2%	0
2017 Lower Saxony state election	State Landtag	5,125	0.1%	0
2019 European Parliament election	European Parliament	40,834[4]	0.1%	0
2019 Bremen state election	Bürgerschaft of Bremen	5,939[5]	0.4%	0
2019 Thuringia state election	Landtag of Thuringia	2,700	0.2%	0

Other "basic income parties"

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

• Basinkomstpartiet, Sweden
• The Basic Income Party, Korea (Korean: 기본소득당; Hanja: 基本所得黨)
• The Base (Dutch: De Basis)

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

See also

• Universal basic income in Germany