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Why does it have to be 50-50 in Germany's Bundestag [duplicate]
In Germany's Bundestag, 299 seats are for proportional representation and the other 299 are for regional representation in a first-past-the-post system. Is it just a coincidence that the seats are ...
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Do coalition partners in German parliament always sit next to each other?
The political parties in German parliament sit in a half circle, traditionally arranged from left wing to right conservative. It is not always clear which party is left or right of which others so the ...
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How are the chairpeople of the Bundestag's standing committees distributed?
Yesterday, the AfD candidate for chairperson of the interior standing committee of the German Bundestag was almost unanimously rejected with only one non-AfD member voting in favour (link in German; ...
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How does Germany regularly elect judges onto Federal Constitutional Court despite needing two-thirds majority vote?
In Germany, the judges on Federal Constitutional Court are elected by the federal parliament with two-thirds majority vote.
Throughout its history, the parliament was able to elect new judges without ...
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How do the Ausgleichsmandate in Germany's Bundestag election work?
I'm aware of How does the German Bundestag election system work? but it seems rather broad and none of the answers go into detail about the Ausgleichsmandate (or leveling seats as Wikipedia translates ...
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In parliamentary systems, why are Speakers of Parliament often granted special independence, despite no such protection is required in Constitution?
In parliamentary systems, the Speaker (once elected by the Parliament) usually cannot be removed by a decision of Parliament, which grants them special independence to act impartially.
However, most ...
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How can we apply the Bundestag election model to European elections? (model building)
I have looked into electoral systems and am trying to build a model of what the 2019 EU election would have looked like if it had used the Bundestag election system.
Disclaimer: I am fully aware ...
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What is the point of Germany's 299 "party seats" in the Bundestag?
This question about Bundestag elections (How does the German Bundestag election system work?) does a good job at summarising Bundestag elections. Long story short: 299 directly-elected candidate from ...
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Why do some German MPs hold cards up whenever there is a vote in the Bundestag?
You can see here for example https://youtu.be/mKn4Pi3qXjU?t=3594 that members of the Bundestag holding cards up during a vote on a bill. Is this a special kind of voting? How does it work?
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How does the German Bundestag election system work?
Can someone describe for me if this election system is a majoritarian system or a system of proportional representation? And how does it work?
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In the Weimar Republic what was the role of the people sitting on the left side of the speaker?
I know that in the Weimar republic the chancellor and other ministers of government sit in front of the members of parliament on the right side of the speaker but was the role of the people who sit to ...
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Why is the new German parliament 12 % bigger?
Before the
German federal election in September 2017,
the parliament (Bundestag) had 631 members; now it has 709 .
How did this come about?
Does it matter, or is it a second-order effect?
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