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The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. [a] Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration.
State Portrait Head of government [a] Date of birth Party Took office Time in office Election(s) Current cabinet Baden-Württemberg: Winfried Kretschmann 17 May 1948 (age 76) Greens: 12 May 2011: 13 years, 298 days 2021 2016 2011: Kretschmann III Bavaria: Markus Söder 5 January 1967 (age 58) CSU: 16 March 2018: 6 years, 355 days 2023 2018
Under Germany's mixed member proportional system of election, the Bundestag has 299 constituencies (Wahlkreise (German: [ˈvaːlˌkʁaɪ̯zə] ⓘ), electoral districts), each of which may elect one member of the Bundestag by first-past-the-post voting (a plurality of votes).
The State of the Union address of the European Union was instituted by the Lisbon Treaty (with the 2010 Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission - Annex IV(5) [3]), in order to make political life of the Union more democratic and transparent than it previously had been.
Germany's reformed voting system aims to blend British- or American-style single-member constituencies with the proportionality characteristic of most continental European countries.
Landtag (state parliament) of the state of Baden-Württemberg. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany divides authority between the federal government and the states (German: "Länder"), with the general principle governing relations articulated in Article 30: "Except as otherwise provided or permitted by this Basic Law, the exercise of state powers and the discharge of state ...
Germany is a member of the European Union and the eurozone. Germany maintains a network of 229 diplomatic missions abroad and holds relations with more than 190 countries. [30] It is the largest contributor to the budget of the European Union (providing 27%) and third largest contributor to the United Nations (providing 8%).
With more than 80 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union (EU). Germany is a major economic and political power of the European continent and a historic leader in many cultural, scientific, and technological fields.