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An indirect presidential election (officially the 13th Federal Convention) was held in Germany on 23 May 2009. The president of Germany is elected by the Federal Convention, which is made up of the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of members elected by the state parliaments. [1]
Elections in Germany include elections to the Bundestag (Germany's federal parliament), the Landtags of the various states, and local elections.. Several articles in several parts of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany govern elections and establish constitutional requirements such as the secret ballot, and the requirement that all elections be conducted in a free and fair manner.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag. [1]The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won the election, and the three parties formed a new centre-right government with Angela Merkel as chancellor.
2024 European Parliament election in Germany; S. 2024 Saxony state election; T. 2024 Thuringian state election This page was last edited on 25 May 2022, at 00:52 ...
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 ...
Together the three states have around 8.5 million inhabitants - similar to the population of Switzerland - and account for 10% of Germany's population. Factbox-What to watch for in Germany’s ...
A far-right party is on course to win a regional election in Germany for the first time since the Second World War, exit polls showed. Alternative for Germany (AfD) was on track to come first in ...
The court allowed three years for these changes, so the 2009 federal election was not affected. [2] The Bundestag is elected using mixed-member proportional representation. Each voter has two votes, a first vote for the election of a constituency candidate (by method of first-past-the-post [3]), and a second vote for the election of a state ...