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Logo of the Federal Returning Officer. In Germany, the Federal Returning Officer (German: Bundeswahlleiterin [ˈbʊndəsvaːlˌlaɪtəʁɪn] ⓘ when the office is held by a woman, Bundeswahlleiter [ˈbʊndəsvaːlˌlaɪtɐ] ⓘ when by a man) is the Returning Officer responsible for overseeing elections on the federal level.
Alternatives to BAföG include the Bildungskredit ("study loan") from KfW, Bildungsfonds, and scholarships. However, in most cases to qualify for a private loan, one must have German citizenship, have EU citizenship and have resided in Germany for three consecutive years, or have graduated from a German secondary school.
In Germany, the entire country makes up a single constituency.Newropeans needed to collect at least 4,000 signatures to be able to stand for election. The party announced on 14 April 2008 that it had collected 4,359 signatures, which were handed over to the Federal Returning Officer in Wiesbaden on 31 March.
The politics of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt take place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Saxony-Anhalt.
German Academic Scholarship Foundation, branch office, Berlin. The selection process is extremely rigorous and only those students who show outstanding academic and personal promise are chosen. The Studienstiftung awards scholarships to fewer than 0.5% of German students. [9] It is often referred to as Germany's "secret elite university". [10]
In Australia a returning officer is an employee of the Australian Electoral Commission or a state electoral commission who heads the local divisional office full-time, and oversees elections in their division, or an employee of a private firm which carries out elections and/or ballots in the private and/or public sectors, or anyone who carries out any election and/or ballot for any group or ...
In November 2023, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) declared parts of the government's budget policy unconstitutional. Scholz's cabinet had reallocated unspent debt proceeds – originally designated to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic – to its climate action budget.
In the 2013 federal election, the Free Voters received 1.0% of the national vote (423,977 votes in total). [13] In the 2014 European parliament elections in Germany, the Free Voters list received 1.46% of the national vote and returned a single MEP, Ulrike Müller, [14] who sits with the ALDE Group. [15]