Sentences with phrase «german federal elections»
Note that for the German federal elections, the representation was already proportional as there are only half as many districts (and direct mandates) as there are seats in the parliament.
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These focus on timing — possibly delaying the referendum beyond the prime minister's deadline of the end of 2017 to ensure that the renegotiations do not clash with the French presidential and the German federal elections in May and the late summer of that year.
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, another former UK ambassador to the EU, said No 10 was «plum wrong» to hold the referendum in 2017 — the year of the next French presidential and German federal elections.
The German federal elections have run their course and the CDU / CSU gained the lion's share of the public's support.
While failing to enter parliament, this has been the best performance of a party running for the first time in a German federal election since 1957.
This question is about the German federal election.
Before the German federal election in September 2017, the parliament (Bundestag) had 631 members; now it has 709.
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Martin Schulz, the center - left candidate for German chancellor and Merkel's primary rival ahead of the September federal elections, said that the U.S. withdrawal from Paris must be met with a refusal by the EU to re-initiate transatlantic trade talks.
The vote was taken in the Bundestag in Berlin during the last session of the German parliament before federal elections in September.
7.30 pm Update German Elections: Andrew Marshall's Live Blog: MERKEL MAY WIN OUTRIGHT: «In federal election, CDU / CSU is a seat or so in range of an absolute majority - but its spokespeople being very careful what they say.»
For example, «We have been working to ensure the integrity of the German elections this weekend, from taking actions against thousands of fake accounts, to partnering with public authorities like the Federal Office for Information Security, to sharing security practices with the candidates and parties.»