National Democratic Party of East Germany (1990: Two Germanies)

The National Democratic Party of East Germany (German: National-Demokratische Partei Ost-Deutschlands, NDPD) is an East German christian democratic political party founded in 1948. Until 1989, it served as a satellite party to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

While it was in the start a conservative party to represent former members of the Nazi party, the Wehrmacht and middle class, in the transition period, it moved towards the centre of East German politics.

Over the 1990s, the party became a centrist and national liberal party, that became more and more opposed to the idea of German reunification. It had also distancing itself from both Communism and Nazism. While this worked through the decade, after 2000, the party began to again move towards the right. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, it reformed itself as a conservative liberal and national conservative party in favor of East German independence.

The party's leader Bernd Lucke moved from West Germany to East Germany in the 1990s. He is sometimes described as far-right and right-wing populist. After he became leader in 2009, he have been influencial in turning the party into a right-wing party.