Federal Convention
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constitutional body convened solely to elect the President of Germany
Key facts
- Type
- Electoral college
- President
- Julia Klöckner
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- constitutional institution
- Country
- Germany
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- Commons category
- Bundesversammlung (Deutschland)
- hashtag
- Bundesversammlung
- different from
- Federal Convention
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Encyclopedic overview
The Federal Convention, also known as the Federal Assembly (German: Bundesversammlung [ˈbʊndəsfɛɐ̯ˌzamlʊŋ] ), is, together with the Joint Committee, one of two non-permanent constitutional bodies in the institutional framework of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Federal Convention consists of all members of the federal parliament (Bundestag) and the same number of state delegates, who are allocated proportionally to the sixteen German states on the basis of the number of inhabitants eligible to vote on federal level. Those state delegations are elected by the state parliaments ad hoc. The Federal Convention is convened solely for the purpose of electing the President of Germany and has no other function.
Convening the Federal Convention
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