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Politics of Germany takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Federal Chancellor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ...
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ...
The Bundesrat (federal council) is the representation of the 16 Federal States (Länder) of Germany at the federal level. ...
The Federal Convention (Bundesversammlung) is a special body in the institutional system of Germany, convoked only for the purpose of selecting the Bundespräsident every five years. ...
The Federal Constitutional Court (in German: Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) is a special court established by the German Constitution, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). ...
The Bundesgerichtshof or BGH (German for federal court) is the highest Germany for civil and criminal lawsuits. ...
The Federal President (German: Bundespräsident, formerly Reichspräsident) is Germanys head of state. ...
Horst Köhler ( ▶(?), born 22 February 1943) is the President of Germany. ...
The German title Bundeskanzler is also the title of the Chancellor of Austria, and the title of a Swiss federal official (Federal Chancellor of Switzerland). ...
Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel (born July 17, 1954) is the current Chancellor of Germany. ...
The Cabinet of Germany (German: Bundeskabinett, Bundesregierung) is the chief executive body of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...
Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ...
There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ...
Elections in Germany gives information on election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections. ...
This is a list of political parties in Germany. ...
| | Politics portal | The South Schleswig Voter Federation (German: Südschleswigscher Wählerverband, Danish: Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforening, Frisian: Söödschlaswiksche Wäälerferbånd) is a minor political party in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is a party for Danish and Friesian minorities. Frisian is a Germanic language, or group of closely related languages, spoken by around half a million members of an ethnic group living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. ...
A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ...
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 Bundesländer in Germany. ...
Frisian is a Germanic language, or group of closely related languages, spoken by around half a million members of an ethnic group living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. ...
The SSW is not a conventional party of the left or right, and there exist elements from across the political spectrum in the party, but it models itself on the Scandinavian countries, which often means favoring a strong welfare state. It has not contested federal elections since 1965. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...
As a party for the ethnic Danish minority, the SSW is not subject to the usual German requirement of getting a 5% vote share in order to receive proportional seats in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament (Landtag). In the most recent 2005 election, the SSW received 3.6% of the vote and two seats. This was enough for the SSW to hold the balance of power between the national parties of the left and right, and the SSW elected to back a SPD-Green coalition of the left, without entering the coalition. This resulted in criticism from the CDU, which asserted that the SSW's special status existed in order to lobby for minority interests, and that it should be revoked if the SSW behaved like a regular party. Further, the SSW had taken a strong position on the organization of schools in the state, and the CDU complained that since there were separate Danish language schools, it was unreasonable for the SSW to be involved in organizing the regular schools. The Schleswig-Holstein state election, 2005, was conducted on February 20, 2005, to elect members to the Landtag (state legislature) of Schleswig-Holstein. ...
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Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ...
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU - Christlich-Demokratische Union) is a political party in Germany. ...
Today, the SSW is still an opposition party, due to the fact, that the planned coalition did not last even one day and was then replaced by a coalition between the CDU and the SPD.
See also
SSW-Ungdom (in Danish) / SSW-Jugend (in German) (SSW Youth), a political youth organization in Germany. ...
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