The Federal Government is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany and exercises executive power at the federal level. It consists of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Minister
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Katherina Reiche CDU Parteitag 2014 by Olaf Kosinsky 2
The Bundestag is the federal parliament of Germany. It is the only constitutional body in the country directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law
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…articles 62 to 69) of the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz). The Chancellor and the other members of the government are allowed also to be members of the Bundestag, but are not required to be so. An extended body is the Federal Cabinet (Bundeskabinett), which includes the Federal Government (consisting of the…
Deutscher Bundestag Plenarsaal Seitenansicht
The German Unity Flag is a national memorial to German reunification that was raised on 3 October 1990; it waves in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, seat of the Bundestag.
Bundestag ballot from the 2005 election in the Würzburg district. The column for the constituency vote (with the name, occupation, and address of each candidate) is on the left in black print; the column for the party list vote (showing top five list candidates in the state) is on the right in blue print.
The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, one of the official buildings of the complex, housing the parliamentary library