As Germans go to the polls for Sunday's parliamentary elections, they will also decide whether Chancellor Angela Merkel will be at the top of the country for four years. It has three mandates or a total of 12 years since November 2005, as Germany has no limit on the time this position can take. If she is re-elected (which seems more likely because her party union CDU / CSU is leading in polls with a comfortable lead), she will achieve the achievement of her political mentor, Helmut Kohl, serving for 16 years as Chancellor. In 1990 he even led the German reunion, recalling the site for graphical statistical performance Statista.com.
Only Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first chancellor, occupied this post for 19 years without a single day, from 1871 to 1890. He ruled Germany's initial reunification, turning it from a group of scattered states and feudals into the national the state we know it today. As Germans go to the polls for Sunday's parliamentary elections, they will also decide whether Chancellor Angela Merkel will be at the top of the country for four years. It has three mandates or a total of 12 years since November 2005, as Germany has no limit on the time this position can take. If she is re-elected (which seems more likely because her party union CDU / CSU is leading in polls with a comfortable lead), she will achieve the achievement of her political mentor, Helmut Kohl, serving for 16 years as Chancellor. In 1990 he even led the German reunion, recalling the site for graphical statistical performance Statista.com. The minimum number of seats in the Bundestag should be 598 people. Half of the seats (299) go to candidates selected from party lists. Here is a minimum threshold of 5 percent. The other half of the seats (299) are for candidates elected by the 299 electoral councils, with the principle of one chosen district candidate in force. The winner is the candidate who has achieved the best score, whether he has received 50 percent or no. But the exact number of MPs becomes known after each parliamentary vote. There were 613 deputies in the Bundestag. The sophisticated electoral system allows each voter to vote twice for the same party, or to differentiate his vote by voting for two different political forces, for example a party list of a party that traditionally supports but a candidate of another party , which he considered to be more convincing than the candidate of the traditionally supported party. Most of the Germans vote differently and not in both cases for the same political force because they are accustomed to being governed by coalitions, notes the agency quoted by BTA. The second voice, given as a party list, is of great importance. The result of each party in each German province will determine to a large extent the number of MEPs finally entering the Bundestag, this number being determined by complex calculations. If a party receives, for example, 30 percent of the votes in the proportional vote in a province (or, ultimately, nationally), it will certainly have 30 percent of all its seats. If the number of MPs elected by direct vote turns out to be below that threshold of 30 percent, then it is supplemented by candidates from the regional lists. However, if the number is higher than the proportional result (which is increasingly the case for the two largest parties - the Conservatives and the Social Democrats), these direct additional seats remain and mechanically increase the total number of MPs in the Bundestag. In this case, the Constitutional Court imposed a rebalancing of the forces in the form of providing additional seats to other small parties in order to preserve the proportional dimension of the vote. This ultimately leads to a swell in the number of MPs in the Bundestag and, according to estimates, this time it could reach 700 deputies. Attempts to have a ceiling on this number have so far failed. The electoral system is such as to exclude too small parties from parliament, the DPA notes. As a result, a party must transfer the threshold of 5 percent of the national vote or beat three electoral districts. The 5% barrier does not apply to parties representing national minorities. For decades, the German electoral system has not produced an absolute majority for a party. The country has no tradition of forming minority governments, so the next government will be an inalienable coalition, AP notes. The election day tomorrow begins at 8am local time and ends at 6pm local time. Recent public opinion polls show that the Conservative bloc Christian Democratic Union / Christian Social Union (HDZ / HSU) of Angela Merkel will receive 36 percent. The German Social Democratic Party (GDS) will receive 21.5 percent. An alternative to Germany, defined as a populist and anti-immigrant, will get 11 percent (AG). Liberals from the Free Democratic Party (SDP) will receive 10 percent, Lewis - 8.5 percent, and Greens - 8 percent. In the 2013 election, 24.3 percent of voters sent their ballots by mail. It is expected that the record in this direction will be improved. In the current election, 4800 candidates are taking part. Of these, 29 percent are women. The average age of the candidates is 47 years, the youngest being 18, and the oldest is a 89-year-old German actress and publisher, author of children's and gourmet books and political actor Barbara Reutting. There are 42 parties in the election, with 16 of them taking part for the first time. Among the recruiting parties are the Basic Basic Income Union, the German Center Party and the Party of Change, the vegetarians and the vegans. Out of the total of 42 parties, only four were represented in the current parliament, and they are the HSU / HDZ, the SGP, the Lefti and the Union 90 / Greens, united more than 20 years ago with the two separate parties - Union 90 and Greens. Election candidates may be elected by parties or be independent. In the latter case, the independent candidate must submit 200 signatures in its support. So far, there have been only three times early elections in Germany in 1972, 1983 and 2005, TASS added. Elections are generally produced at four years and the date is set by the president.
Tomorrow, residents of the capital will combine the vote in the parliamentary election with the traditional Berlin marathon and vote in a referendum on the fate of Berlin's Tegel Airport - whether to continue operating parallel to a new airport or to stop work, the DPA recalls.
Only Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first chancellor, occupied this post for 19 years without a single day, from 1871 to 1890. He ruled Germany's initial reunification, turning it from a group of scattered states and feudals into the national the state we know it today. As Germans go to the polls for Sunday's parliamentary elections, they will also decide whether Chancellor Angela Merkel will be at the top of the country for four years. It has three mandates or a total of 12 years since November 2005, as Germany has no limit on the time this position can take. If she is re-elected (which seems more likely because her party union CDU / CSU is leading in polls with a comfortable lead), she will achieve the achievement of her political mentor, Helmut Kohl, serving for 16 years as Chancellor. In 1990 he even led the German reunion, recalling the site for graphical statistical performance Statista.com. The minimum number of seats in the Bundestag should be 598 people. Half of the seats (299) go to candidates selected from party lists. Here is a minimum threshold of 5 percent. The other half of the seats (299) are for candidates elected by the 299 electoral councils, with the principle of one chosen district candidate in force. The winner is the candidate who has achieved the best score, whether he has received 50 percent or no. But the exact number of MPs becomes known after each parliamentary vote. There were 613 deputies in the Bundestag. The sophisticated electoral system allows each voter to vote twice for the same party, or to differentiate his vote by voting for two different political forces, for example a party list of a party that traditionally supports but a candidate of another party , which he considered to be more convincing than the candidate of the traditionally supported party. Most of the Germans vote differently and not in both cases for the same political force because they are accustomed to being governed by coalitions, notes the agency quoted by BTA. The second voice, given as a party list, is of great importance. The result of each party in each German province will determine to a large extent the number of MEPs finally entering the Bundestag, this number being determined by complex calculations. If a party receives, for example, 30 percent of the votes in the proportional vote in a province (or, ultimately, nationally), it will certainly have 30 percent of all its seats. If the number of MPs elected by direct vote turns out to be below that threshold of 30 percent, then it is supplemented by candidates from the regional lists. However, if the number is higher than the proportional result (which is increasingly the case for the two largest parties - the Conservatives and the Social Democrats), these direct additional seats remain and mechanically increase the total number of MPs in the Bundestag. In this case, the Constitutional Court imposed a rebalancing of the forces in the form of providing additional seats to other small parties in order to preserve the proportional dimension of the vote. This ultimately leads to a swell in the number of MPs in the Bundestag and, according to estimates, this time it could reach 700 deputies. Attempts to have a ceiling on this number have so far failed. The electoral system is such as to exclude too small parties from parliament, the DPA notes. As a result, a party must transfer the threshold of 5 percent of the national vote or beat three electoral districts. The 5% barrier does not apply to parties representing national minorities. For decades, the German electoral system has not produced an absolute majority for a party. The country has no tradition of forming minority governments, so the next government will be an inalienable coalition, AP notes. The election day tomorrow begins at 8am local time and ends at 6pm local time. Recent public opinion polls show that the Conservative bloc Christian Democratic Union / Christian Social Union (HDZ / HSU) of Angela Merkel will receive 36 percent. The German Social Democratic Party (GDS) will receive 21.5 percent. An alternative to Germany, defined as a populist and anti-immigrant, will get 11 percent (AG). Liberals from the Free Democratic Party (SDP) will receive 10 percent, Lewis - 8.5 percent, and Greens - 8 percent. In the 2013 election, 24.3 percent of voters sent their ballots by mail. It is expected that the record in this direction will be improved. In the current election, 4800 candidates are taking part. Of these, 29 percent are women. The average age of the candidates is 47 years, the youngest being 18, and the oldest is a 89-year-old German actress and publisher, author of children's and gourmet books and political actor Barbara Reutting. There are 42 parties in the election, with 16 of them taking part for the first time. Among the recruiting parties are the Basic Basic Income Union, the German Center Party and the Party of Change, the vegetarians and the vegans. Out of the total of 42 parties, only four were represented in the current parliament, and they are the HSU / HDZ, the SGP, the Lefti and the Union 90 / Greens, united more than 20 years ago with the two separate parties - Union 90 and Greens. Election candidates may be elected by parties or be independent. In the latter case, the independent candidate must submit 200 signatures in its support. So far, there have been only three times early elections in Germany in 1972, 1983 and 2005, TASS added. Elections are generally produced at four years and the date is set by the president.
Tomorrow, residents of the capital will combine the vote in the parliamentary election with the traditional Berlin marathon and vote in a referendum on the fate of Berlin's Tegel Airport - whether to continue operating parallel to a new airport or to stop work, the DPA recalls.
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