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Germany is a democratic and federal parliamentary republic, where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag (the parliament of Germany) and the Bundesrat (the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states).
The Bundestag (German: [ˈbʊndəstaːk] ⓘ, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament alongside the legally distinct body of the Bundesrat, which together function similar to a bicameral legislature while technically being two separate unicameral legislative entities. It is the only federal representative body directly elected by the ...
This is a list of members of the 20th and current Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. The 20th Bundestag was elected in the 26 September 2021 federal election, and was constituted in its first session on 26 October 2021. [1] The 20th Bundestag is the largest in history with 733 members, 135 seats larger than its minimum size of 598.
The Federal Republic of Germany has a plural multi-party system.The largest by members and parliament seats are the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
The German federal election system regulates the election of the members of the national parliament, called the Bundestag.According to the principles governing the elections laws, set down in Art. 38 of the German Basic Law, elections are to be universal, direct, free, equal, and secret.
The 24 representatives from the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) who were members of the 11th German Bundestag after reunification on October 3, 1989, formed a group. In the 12th German Bundestag (1990–94), Alliance 90/The Greens with eight seats and the PDS with 17 seats each formed a group. Both parties had only overcome the barrier ...
In 1949, two separate German states were established: the Federal Republic of Germany (known as West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (known as East Germany). The list below gives the chancellors of West Germany; the government of East Germany was headed by the chairman of the Council of Ministers. [8]
In Germany's federal electoral system, a single party or parliamentary group rarely wins an absolute majority of seats in the Bundestag, and thus coalition governments, rather than single-party governments, are the usually expected outcome of a German election. [1]