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In December 2024, Weidel was nominated as candidate for chancellor by the AfD's federal executive board; the party thus wants to nominate a female candidate for chancellor for a federal election for the first time. The nomination will be decided at the party conference in January 2025. [16] [Out of date]
Federal elections were held in Germany to elect the 630 members of the 21st Bundestag, down from over 730 in 2021 due to a reform.The 2025 election took place seven months ahead of schedule due to the 2024 collapse of the incumbent governing coalition.
The Basic Law and the Federal Election Act provide that regular federal elections must be held on a Sunday or on a national holiday [b] no earlier than 46 and no later than 48 months after the start of a legislative session. The 21st Bundestag will hold its first sitting on 25 March 2025, [1] which results in the following possible election dates:
Germany is expected to hold a snap election on Feb. 23 after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition last month. Germany has two, centrist big tent parties: Scholz's centre-left Social ...
BERLIN (AP) — Four candidates are bidding to be Germany's next leader in Sunday's election. The would-be chancellors are the incumbent, the opposition leader, the current vice chancellor and — for the first time — a leader of a far-right party. Olaf Scholz. The 66-year-old has been Germany's chancellor since December 2021.
Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition. WHAT IS GERMANY'S HYBRID VOTING SYSTEM? Germany's reformed voting ...
This is a breakdown of the results of the 2025 German federal election. The following tables display detailed results in each of the sixteen states and all 299 single-member constituencies . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany's Christian Democrats, speaks to voters during an election campaign tour stop on February 20, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Credit - Photo by Maja Hitij ...