The plaintiffs represent the entire political spectrum, including the Left Party, the Christian Social Union MP Peter Gauweiler, and the justice minister in former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s Social Democratic government, Herta Däubler-Gmelin, who has collected tens of thousands of signatures supporting her case. There is also a group of retired professors of economics and law, and another of “ordinary” citizens, whose individual complaints have been selected as examples by the Court.
原告代表了整个德国政坛，包括左翼党、基督教社会联盟议员高威勒（Peter Gauweiler）和前总理施罗德的社会民主党政府司法部长道勒-格梅林（Herta Däubler-Gmelin），后者更是收集了数万人的支持签名。还有一群退休经济学和法学教授，以及另外一批“普通”公民，后者的抱怨被德国宪法法院采纳为参考例子。