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The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as Freistaaten ("free states").
2024 European Parliament election in Germany: Conservative parties retain their plurality in the German contingent of the European Parliament. [50] The AfD prevails in all five former East German states. [51] 2024 Hamburg borough elections; 14 June: One person is killed and three others are injured in a stabbing attack in Wolmirstedt, Saxony ...
10 July 2024: 166 days 2021: Schweitzer Saarland: Anke Rehlinger 6 April 1976 (age 48) SPD: 25 April 2022: 2 years, 242 days 2022: Rehlinger Saxony: Michael Kretschmer 7 May 1975 (age 49) CDU: 13 December 2017: 7 years, 10 days 2024 2019: Kretschmer III Saxony-Anhalt: Reiner Haseloff 19 February 1954 (age 70) CDU: 19 April 2011
Germany's federal system comprises 16 state parliaments (the German terms are Landtag in large states, Bürgerschaft in Bremen and Hamburg, and Abgeordnetenhaus in Berlin), each including directly elected representatives.
In September 2024, state elections in three states of eastern Germany yielded disastrous results for the parties in the federal traffic light coalition. In the elections in Thuringia (1 September), the Greens and FDP lost all their seats, while the SPD received its worst result in any post-war state election.
Regarding elections to the United States Congress, the point of reference is the president's term. There are three classes of United States senators; each election replaces one class, hence a "midterm election" appears as one third through the term of one class and two thirds through the other, while still midway the term of a president. In ...
Former President Donald Trump was demonstrably weakened — and President Joe Biden strengthened — by Tuesday's midterm election results, just as the two begin What the midterms mean for a ...
The German head of state is the federal president. As in Germany's parliamentary system of government, the federal chancellor runs the government and day-to-day politics, while the role of the federal president is mostly ceremonial. The federal president, by their actions and public appearances, represents the state itself, its existence, its ...