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German Legislature
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the lower house of the German federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany () in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany, the other being the Bundesrat. It is thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their conscience. As of the current 21st legislative period, the Bundestag has a fixed number of 630 members. The Bundestag is elected every four years by German citizens aged 18 and older. Elections use a mixed-member proportional representation system which combines First-past-the-post voting for constituency-seats with proportional representation to ensure its composition mirrors the national popular vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members Of The 21st Bundestag
The 21st Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany, was elected in the 2025 German federal election, 23 February 2025 federal election, and was constituted on 25 March 2025. The President of the Bundestag is Julia Klöckner (CDU (Germany), CDU). The 21st Bundestag has 630 members, 103 seats smaller than the 20th Bundestag had been at 733 members. It has 208 members of the CDU/CSU, originally 152 members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), 120 members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 85 members of Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne), 64 members of The Left (Germany), The Left (Linke), and one member of the South Schleswig Voters' Association. On 2 May 2025 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, (BfV) Germany's federal Security agency, domestic intelligence agency, classified the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist" organisation. This classification was temporarily suspended by the BfV just a week after its announcement. One parliamentari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President By Right Of Age Of The Bundestag
The President by right of age (''Alterspräsident'') is the longest-serving member of the German Bundestag (until 2017 the oldest by age). Role The role of the President by right of age is defined in the standing rules of the Bundestag: Currently (since 2017), the position is held by the longest-serving member of parliament, with discontinuous terms of office being added together. If two members of parliament have been in office for the same length of time, age is decisive. Before a change to the standing rules in 2017, the position was held by the oldest member. He or she shall preside over the Bundestag, whenever the whole Presidium of the Bundestag (president and vice presidents) is vacant or incapacitated. This is usually the case during the opening session of each legislative term, over which the President by right of age presides until a President of the Bundestag has been elected and accepted the election. For this purpose, he is authorized to appoint temporary secretaries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Seidler
Stefan Seidler (born 18 December 1979) is a Danish-German politician of the South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW), the party representing the interests of the Danish and Frisian minority populations in Germany. He was elected to the Bundestag from Schleswig-Holstein in the 2021 German federal election. His election represented the first time the SSW won a seat since 1949. The SSW last contested a federal election in the 1961 West German election. Early life and education Seidler was born in 1979 in Flensburg, West Germany, as the son of a Danish-born teacher and a timber salesman from Flensburg. After completing his secondary education at Duborg-Skolen, he studied at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, where he obtained a master's degree in political science and a diploma in political communication. He is a member of the Danish Association of Lawyers and Economists. Political career Seidler has been politically active in both Denmark and Germany. In Aarhus, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Schleswig Voters' Association
The South Schleswig Voters' AssociationOther translations include ''South Schleswig Voter Alliance'', ''South Schleswig Voters' Committee'', ''South Schleswig Voter Federation'', ''South Schleswig Voters Group'', ''South Schleswig Voters League'', ''South Schleswig Voters List'', ''South Schleswig Voters' Union'', ''South Schleswig Electoral Association''. (, SSW; , SSV) is a Regionalism (politics), regionalist political party in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The party represents the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig, Danish and Frisians, Frisian minorities of the state. As a party representing a national minority, the SSW declines to identify itself with a scale of left–right politics but models its policies on the Nordic model, which often means favouring a strong welfare state, while favouring a more free-market labour policy than the German social market economy model. In 2011 it was defined as Social liberalism, socially liberal by multiple authors. The SSW is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Linke
Die Linke (; ), also known as the Left Party ( ), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. Through the PDS, the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist–Leninist ruling party of former East Germany, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). Since October 2024, The Left's co- chairpersons have been Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken. The party holds 64 seats out of 630 in the German federal parliament (the Bundestag), having won 8.8% of votes cast in the 2025 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the second-smallest of seven in the Bundestag, and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Heidi Reichinnek and Sören Pellmann. The Left is represented in seven of Germany's sixteen state legislatures, including four of the five eastern states. As of 2025, the party participates in gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Social Union In Bavaria
The Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( German: , CSU) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. Having a regionalist identity, the CSU operates only in Bavaria while its larger counterpart, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), operates in the other fifteen states of Germany. It differs from the CDU by being somewhat more conservative in social matters, following Catholic social teaching. The CSU is considered the ''de facto'' successor of the Weimar-era Catholic Bavarian People's Party. At the federal level, the CSU forms a common faction in the Bundestag with the CDU which is frequently referred to as the Union Faction (''die Unionsfraktion'') or simply CDU/CSU. The CSU has had 43 seats in the Bundestag since the 2021 federal election, making it currently the second smallest of the eight parties represented. The CSU is a member of the European People's Party and the International Democracy Union. Party leader Markus Söder serves as Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Union Of Germany
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( , CDU ) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is the major party of the centre-right in German politics. Friedrich Merz has been federal chairman of the CDU since 31 January 2022, and has served as the Chancellor of Germany since 6 May 2025. The CDU is the largest party in the Bundestag, the German federal legislature, with 208 out of 630 seats, having won 28.5% of votes in the 2025 German federal election, 2025 federal election. It forms the CDU/CSU Bundestag faction, also known as the Union, with its Bavarian counterpart, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). The group's parliamentary leader is also Friedrich Merz. Founded in 1945 as an interdenominational Christian party, the CDU effectively succeeded the pre-war Catholic Centre Party (Germany), Centre Party, with many former members joining the party, including its first leader Konrad Adenauer. The party also included politicians of other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merz Cabinet
The Merz cabinet (, ) is the 25th and current Federal Government of Germany, Government of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany during the 21st Bundestag, 21st legislative session of the Bundestag. It succeeded the Scholz cabinet, previous cabinet led by Olaf Scholz. The cabinet is led by Friedrich Merz. The cabinet is composed of Merz's Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister-party Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Christian Social Union (CSU) (which form the CDU/CSU alliance; the so called ''Union'') and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD). It is the fifth time a Grand coalition (Germany), governing coalition between Union and SPD has been formed in post-war German history and the first since the Fourth Merkel cabinet led by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2018. Coalition formation The Union (CDU/CSU) with its Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz emerged from 2025 German federal elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tino Chrupalla
Tino Chrupalla (; born 14 April 1975) is a German politician from the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD). A member of the German parliament (Bundestag) since 2017, he has served as co-chairman of the AfD since 2019 along with Alice Weidel. In November 2019, Chrupalla was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace the latter as co-chairman of the AfD; he later won election as co-chair. Biography Chrupalla was born on 14 April 1975 in Weißwasser, then part of East Germany. In 2003 he completed state professional exams to become a licensed house painter and master varnisher. He later became owner of a construction company. Chrupalla is married with two children. In March 2020, Chrupalla's car caught fire on his property in Gablenz, a town in northeastern Saxony. The local police suspected arson, but it was never confirmed. Chrupalla condemned the act as a direct attack on his family, one that went beyond all conceivable boundaries of political debate. In Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Weidel
Alice Elisabeth Weidel (; born 6 February 1979) is a German far-right politician who has been serving as of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Tino Chrupalla since June 2022. Since October 2017, she has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. Weidel became a member of the Bundestag (MdB) in the 2017 German federal election, 2017 federal election, where she was the AfD's lead candidate alongside Alexander Gauland. In the 2021 German federal election, 2021 federal election, she once again served as their lead candidate, alongside Tino Chrupalla. From February 2020 to July 2022, Weidel held the position of chairwoman of the AfD state association in Baden-Württemberg. In 2024, she was selected as her Chancellor candidate, party's candidate for Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor in the 2025 German federal election. Early life and career Alice Elisabeth Weidel was born on 6 February 1979, in Gütersloh. She gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leader Of The Opposition (Germany)
The Leader of the Opposition (, ) in Germany is the parliamentary leader of the largest political party in the Bundestag that is not in Government of Germany, government. In Germany, the Leader of the Opposition is an informal title that is not even mentioned and does not have any formal functions in the by-laws of the Bundestag. However, the Leader of the Opposition is, by convention, the first person to respond to the most senior government spokesperson during a debate. The title also exists on a state level, but only in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein is the position formally recognized as an actual office. Only three Leaders of the Opposition went on to be directly elected Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor afterwards: Helmut Kohl (1976–1982), Angela Merkel (2002–2005) and Friedrich Merz (2022–2025). List of opposition leaders in Germany since 1949 (Federal Republic of Germany) References {{notelist Leaders of the opposition, Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
