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Bundestag (Germany's lower house of parliament)

The "Bundestag" is Germany's main legislative body. Its over members are elected every four years in a mixed system of constituency and list voting.

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Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, gives a statement before a session of the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, in Berlin, Germany, November 8, 2024.

Germany's coalition collapse: Merz's CDU ready to take power

Germany's coalition collapse: Merz's CDU ready to take power

Riding high in the polls, the center-right Christian Democrats are eager to fight a federal election campaign.
PoliticsNovember 8, 2024
Olaf Scholz walks outside, looking sideways at the camera

What next for Germany after government collapse? A timeline

What next for Germany after government collapse? A timeline

With the collapse of the fractious governing coalition, Germany faces an early election. DW explains the next steps.
PoliticsNovember 7, 2024
left to right Christian Lindner, Robert Habeck, Olaf Scholz on the government bench in the Bundestag

Germany: Can snap elections restore political stability?

Germany: Can snap elections restore political stability?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced a vote of confidence. This could lead to early elections.
PoliticsNovember 6, 2024
A social media search for the term menopause on a smartphone

Menopause: German lawmakers push to break a taboo

Menopause: German lawmakers push to break a taboo

One year before the general election, lawmakers have taken up the issue of menopause, hoping to attract female voters.
HealthOctober 24, 2024
black and white photo of a man casting his ballot in the polling station at Frankfurt train station

Germany remembers its first post-WWII national election

Germany remembers its first post-WWII national election

In 1949, four years after the end of dictatorship and war, Germans could once again elect a democratic parliament.
HistoryAugust 13, 2024
Karamba Diaby

Racism prompts Germany's first African-born lawmaker to quit

Racism prompts Germany's first African-born lawmaker to quit

SPD politician Karamba Diaby has been the target of repeated racist attacks.
PoliticsJuly 6, 2024
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18-year-old casting her ballot in Duisburg in the federal election on September 26, 2021

German government wants to let 16-year-olds vote

The government wants to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. But the majority of the population has expressed skepticism.
PoliticsJune 5, 2023
A blonde, blue-eyed doll at the Yad Vashem exhibition

'Sixteen Objects' exhibition marks 70 years of Yad Vashem

An exhibition by Yad Vashem shows the everyday objects of Holocaust victims in the German parliament.
HistoryJanuary 24, 202302:35 min
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, center, poses for photos with a delegation from the Germany-Taiwan parliamentary friendship group led by Klaus-Peter Willsch and other Taiwan officials at the Presidential Office in Taipei

Official Taiwan trip won't likely provoke China

Experts say a visit by Bundestag deputies doesn't fundamentally shift the status quo of Germany's stance towards Taiwan.
PoliticsOctober 4, 2022
Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz

COVID: Germany introduces new measures

The Bundestag saw a heated debate over how best to respond to the dramatic increase in COVID infections.
PoliticsNovember 18, 2021
Over the entrance ot parliament it reads 'for the German people'

Germany's new Bundestag: Only for the educated?

Very few of Germany's lawmakers have led a life as a worker and low-income earner. Sabine Kinkartz met one of them.
PoliticsOctober 31, 2021
Bärbel Bas

One of Germany's five top jobs to go to a woman

The Social Democrats have named Bärbel Bas as their candidate to head the German parliament.
PoliticsOctober 20, 2021
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