Well. Obviously I'm not gonna spoil it, despite my time machine in the backyard. Just this much: As Andrew pointed out, any German citizen can be elected chancellor. Also: Andrew is a German citizen. 'Nuff said.
Oh funny, a British guy from TH-cam did a better job explaining to me how we elect a chancellor in 5 minutes than my political education teacher did in 4 years.
There’s also a round 4 where a boxing ring is built in the chamber of the Bundestag and the candidates from the top two parties go for it in a Celebrity Deathmatch-style smack down.
And about the topic of the video: I'd prefer a minority government, because that way, they'd actually have to discuss about the subject matter and could not rule based on who is whose friend or enemy. Right now, a good suggestion gets put off because it was made by the wrong party, and that is something that shouldn't happen in politics.
de facto, most minority governments still have a preferred party with which they cooperate the most, though (at least, that's how it works in Denmark or Norway, where they have quite a bit of experience with minority governing). Which leads to one party being almost in government, except for the unpopular measures, where they can distance themselves more or less successfully from the government.
Your idea holds as long as the parliament comes up with majoritiy decisions at all, which is not a given. There can be a situation where all parties vote down whatever any other party is coming up with. To make them work within administration, legal framework and politics, the decisions of parliament should also be somewhat conclusive, which again is not a given with random majorities. And if parliament is able to do that, it is likely not far from being able to come up with some coalition.
It isn’t needlessly complicated. Of course every system has advantages and disadvantaged, but there are definitely thoughts behind it to ensure a well working democratic procedure
Honestly, with you being a german citizen and all, if you were to stand for election as chancellor, I'd vote for you above all the candidates we have right now.
@@dorderre Nope, he can be chancelor without a party. Just have the president present him and make enough parlamentarians vote for him (by whatever means neccessary).
That's not a hard choice, considering the candidates. Fun Fact: Rewboss has been asked to candidate four years ago by an actual party. I just don't remeber if it was by Die Partei or the Piratenpartei (and I'm too lazy at the moment to search for the video where he mentoined that...)
As an American who is interested in Germany, I found it quite informative... and entertaining! The bell was quite comedic, as was the cabinet pun at the end! By the way, past Rewboss, the coalition-forming only took a little over two months (is this typical?), and its what your country calls an _Ampelkoalition._ Thanks for the video!
As I am watching from after the election: The SPD narrowly won and formed a coalition with both FDP and Greens, the latter had disappoiting results. A Schwampel was avoided as Lindner and Habeck prefered to tell Scholz what to do.
One remaining issue is that there is no time limit for the president to nominate someone. Most have a rule for that, such as giving them the directive to make their choice within a month of the election (or possibly the date the electoral board certified the election or after it was officially recognized by a high court or something of that nature), maybe with the ability to give an extension (the number of times they may extend may be limited). This could turn out to be a wild card in the coalition formation process.
as it is in the US, almost always now. votes are almost perfectly split 50/50. one guy doesn't vote, or dies, or loses his seat, and voila, the other party has the majority. and no, the are going hard by party line nowadays. Now that is a mess
The last and first time a non-member of the Bundestag was chosen and elected was the election of Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1966. The CDU-fraction of the Bundestag was simply unable to find someone from their own ranks to fit into that job.
@@christophpleininger5876 If you search long enough you will find what you want. Kiesinger was the most harmless person we ever had in charge of anything. He was defamed because the Klarfelds wanted to make themselves important.
@@christiankastorf1427 Actually, Kiesinger was a carrierist. He joined the NSDAP in order to make a career, and after the war joined the CDU in order to easier climb up the ladder. He was an attempts to hold old Nazis in the CDU electrorate, as the NPD was starting to gain those votes. And historically speaking it was embarrasing.
Andrew, nicely explained. In your next video, hopefully before election day, please explain the word "Überhangmandat". Because I fear that the Bundestag, huge as it is, will even grow more in size this year, and we will spend more money for another Sesselfurzer.
Wie ich woanders schon erklärte: Sitzanzahl = 28658 / CSUZweitstimmenprozente. Beispiel: CSU erhält in Bayern 33,5% → Bundestag wird 856 Sitze erhalten. (Hintergrund: Die CSU wird wahrscheinlich alle bayerischen 46 Wahlkreise gewinnen, damit 46 Mandate über die Erststimme erreichen. Ihr Zweitstimmenergebnis in Bayern ist auf Bundesebene durch 6,23 zu dividieren. Die 46 Sitze müssen nun dieser Prozentzahl entsprechen, und schon hat man obige Formel. Die CSU wird durch ihre massive Zahl an Überhängen alle anderen Überhänge anderer Parteien dominieren; deren Überhänge gehen in den Ausgleichsmandaten auf; deshalb kann man sich hier auf die CSU beschränken.)
I am okay with a coalition with no free armadillo per household and also can accept a ban of polka music. But only if also Heino ist banned and dog taxes are abolished.
@@renerpho I should prefer a coalition for free parties, but I could also like a fo(u)r party coalition. Did you see the "Die Partei"-spots: "egalité liberté FCKAFD" I approve that, egalité, liberté and the last point has to be fulfilled.
Well, short answer, but I leave the remainder to the expert here on this channel: the German president is not allowed to be member of any party - if he was before, he has to quit first. His (we never had a "her" yet) tasks are mainly representative (like the British Queen😃) and moral towards parliament and public. However s/he has also some executive powers, like a right of "veto" in a disagreement between "Bundestag" and "Bundesrat" (also needs several rounds though), or dissolving the elected executive in very special, rare cases. The cabinet is just the ministers (or secretaries of state - depending which country you are speaking about) that are nominated by the chancellor. In a coalition of parties usually the ministries are distributed between the various fraction and agreed upon beforehand. It seems all very complicated, and most Germans do not know all the mechanisms that make our democracy so much better than the American one.
I sometimes wish the parties would stop naming their candidates, since they can't be elected directely anyway, and just make a campaign based on a program instead of strengths and weaknesses of their candidate for chancellour. Wouldn't that be a novel idea? ;)
Yes. But it will not work. Only a small minority of voters is interested in election programs. Most are only interested in: Who get´s the job. And the need for coalition governments is indeed a problem for election programs: What the party wants to do is one thing, what is layed out in a coalition treaty is a whole other story.
Not really, because the people a party would chose for chancellor is telling the voters a lot about the direction a party is heading in. Just the fact that the CDU considers Merz and Söder suitable options is a red flag. But it would be nice if we wouldn't be bombed with prognoses prior to the elections...it influences the voters too much imho.
And that‘s why I find it strange that the french system doesn‘t even know the concept of coalitions, and they don‘t even try to avoid a minority government by that way. So now they are in that state and will have to try for approval of candidates of other parties for every decision.
hoping for some improvements for democracy in the next legislature period ~9 million of the 83million germans that are adults and not allowed to vote every other migrant doesnt have Staatsbürgerschaft that means for example every 8th person you pass in NRW isnt allowed to vote
Well, the Bundestag didn't exist before the war. But even if you include the Reichstag elections from 1871 onwards (when Germany was finally unified), the only times one party officially received an absolute majority, it was the only party on the ballot paper. I am discounting those elections, however, because they were obvious shams orchestrated by a totalitarian regime: the best result the NSDAP ever received in a multiparty election was 44%.
I left school before the Obama midterms but we still had decades of corruption/systemic failures to analyze (France, UK or Italy could have been on the exam too). Given the 1777 constitution and the European iterations in the meantime it's surprising that the US has any semblance of stability.
Well if you think there is less corruption in Germany you've been fooled. Mist of the times politicians get overpayed positions in big companies they did a favor for. Or they'll profit themselves like the one time a person in charge of building governmental building told hus relatives what properties to buy beforehand to charge germany astronomical figures.
@@ole86 Weil Direktmandate fest vergeben werden, aber die Zusammensetzung des Bundestages nach den Zweitstimmen festgelegt wird. Daher werden Überhangmandate ausgeglichen.
As a political science graduate, I spent a fair amount of time Google translate-ing the political slogans among the posters. I cannot understand what the LKR banner is trying to say though, especially with the long word on the lower side.
It says: LKR Bavaria Freedom, Values, Future Engineers design the future Craftsman build the future …and gender equality officers be like? Let us make it better! Liberal Conservative reformer In germany jobs are gendered So a male doctors are Ärzte and Female doctors are Ärztinnen male teacher are Lehrer and Female Teachers are Lehrerinnen And so on. So the „…and gender equality officers be like?“ Line is a wordplay in german In german when we refer to a group of people we only use the male form. So if you have a group of 3 Male teachers and 3 female teachers you would just say „Lehrer“ even if „Lehrerinnen“ is the female form Now many progressives want to use Lehrer:innen or Ärzt:innen etc. gender equality officers in german is Genderbeauftragte But this word dosent have a female form So they made fun of progressives by still adding the „:innen“ To make it „Genderbeauftragte:innen“ To show that (for them) the way many progressives in germany try to gender is not compatible with our grammar I hope i could explain it
we have a few relatively good statistical institutes, *but* they usually agreed to not publish polls shortly before the elections to not influence the outcome. so, the polls of the 'good and seroius institutes' are usually a little older and only represent the opinions at that time (which can differ from the opinions at the election day). some 'less serious institutes' however did publish polls shortly before the elections in recent years, but they usually are less reliable.
the final version is public (and sometimes even former versions get leaked) and i'm pretty sure, that someone has to sign it (probably the party leaders) - after all bureaucracy is one of our 'strengths'.
@@Narethian of course not. a lot of things can happen in 4 years and it could lead to absurd consequences, when you have to decide something, that doesn't make any sense anymore, because the conditions changed.
The coalition agreement is signed by the party leaders, the chairmen of the parliamentary groups in the Bundestag, and the Secretary-Generals of the parties. For the last election (2018), those were: Angela Merkel (CDU), Olaf Scholz (SPD), Horst Seehofer (CSU); Volker Kauder (CDU), Andrea Nahles (SPD), Alexander Dobrindt (CSU); Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU), Lars Klingbeil (SPD) and Andreas Scheuer (CSU). EDIT: In case of a coalition involving CDU/CSU, the rules are slightly different. Since CDU and CSU form a single fraction, there is no chairman for the CSU. The chairman for the CDU/CSU fraction will sign it, as will some designated member of the other party. Usually the chairman of the fraction belongs to the CDU party, and the other one will be the leader of the Bavaria regional fraction. In the list above, Alexander Dobrindt signed in that role. If we ever get a CSU member as leader of the CDU/CSU fraction in the Bundestag, the fraction would have to agree on who signs for the CDU party. My guess is it would be the leader of the second largest regional fraction, which is most likely North Rhine-Westphalia.
No! 😃 The President is not elected but agreed upon by all relevant parties, and not established at the same time as general elections take place. Presidencies often overlap several different governments. And one requirement for becoming president is that you are "independant"(party-less) by the time you are chosen. You cannot even nominate yourself as candidate for this office, others have to propose you. You can only accept or decline (has also happened before).
A minortity government would always be the best for a democracy. I don't understand why the governing coalition is "allowed" to have more than 49% - that just makes them lazy. If you don't always have the majority you actually need to make good decisions and convince the opposition. As in football I'm also in politics in favour of the 50+1 rule!
No. In Germany it would last exactly until the first budget voting. And Germany would be absorbed by an eternal power struggle between the "big elephants" of the various political parties, unable to make any relevant political decision. Thinking about a minority as best of all political solutions has absolutely nothing to do with the reality of Germany. We Germans are not Scandinavians - and even in Scandinavia minority governments are from being the best political solutions. A minority government is a power vacuum, nothing more.
mal ganz abgesehen von der politischen ideologie ist das in einer modernen volkswirtschaft rein praktisch schwer umsetzbar, wenn nur noch ein verhältnismäßig geringer bevölkerungsanteil in industriellen großbetrieben arbeitet (und das auch wesentlich kürzer als früher). daher ist es einfach praktischer, die 'demokratischen einheiten' an den wohnort und nicht den beruf/betrieb zu koppeln.
@@montanus777 nein das sind so 60% die nicht im Wohnort arbeiten 25% nicht im gleichen landkreis und 12% nicht im gleichen Bundesland. Besonders in den speckgürteln von Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen. Wenn ein Potsdamer will, dass es in Berlin an seinem Arbeitsplatz gut läuft, hat er per Wahl da nichts zu melden.
Well. Obviously I'm not gonna spoil it, despite my time machine in the backyard. Just this much: As Andrew pointed out, any German citizen can be elected chancellor.
Also: Andrew is a German citizen.
'Nuff said.
I will spoil it: it's not going to be Merkel.
(so corny, I know)
@@pelegsap Merkel and Steinmeier are the only ones of whom we know for sure that they will not become chancellor.
Ich liebe deine Videos. Hab als erstes vor ein paar Tagen das "mit den gelben Schildern" gesehen und fands lustig was man so alles lernen kann :D
@@pelegsap Oh yes, we forgot, the Candidate has to agree and can refuse to go to office.
That's not 100% true, because you need the passive voting right :D So for example you need to be older than 18 years old^^
I'm here from after the Election: Armadillos are now illegal and Polka Music is the only Genre allowed!
Oh dear. So I assume that Die Partei has won an absolute majority?
@@untruelie2640 YES! Yippieyaye!
Oh funny, a British guy from TH-cam did a better job explaining to me how we elect a chancellor in 5 minutes than my political education teacher did in 4 years.
That's schools for you: 70% self-taught, 30% mildly learned at school, 100% forgotten after the big test.
Very chillig
@@lillywho the work of the cdu at its finest.
You did not have me :-)
rewboss: the only youtuber that doesn't want you to 'ring that bell' 😜
He is not Pawlow.
@@martinschulz326 It was Pawlow's dog...
Everytime someone tells me to "like, comment and subscribe" - that's a paddling .. ehm ... downvote!
Yet this comment made me ring the bell
@@magssibbert Na dann... Bell!
Party A is dropping the free armadillo policy? I will never forgive them this betrayal!
I support the ban on polka music though.
For that betrayal I vote for a pile of shit in the next election to show the government how disappointed I am!!!1elf11!
Anime girl is 100% right! Give me my Armadillo! I don't know what it does but I know I need it.
There’s also a round 4 where a boxing ring is built in the chamber of the Bundestag and the candidates from the top two parties go for it in a Celebrity Deathmatch-style smack down.
So the German president is pretty much like the English queen
true but it is not for live and the next one will probably not be the son or daughter of the current one.
And about the topic of the video: I'd prefer a minority government, because that way, they'd actually have to discuss about the subject matter and could not rule based on who is whose friend or enemy. Right now, a good suggestion gets put off because it was made by the wrong party, and that is something that shouldn't happen in politics.
I agree
de facto, most minority governments still have a preferred party with which they cooperate the most, though (at least, that's how it works in Denmark or Norway, where they have quite a bit of experience with minority governing). Which leads to one party being almost in government, except for the unpopular measures, where they can distance themselves more or less successfully from the government.
@@barvdw Still, it makes for more diversity and discussion and therefore likely higher quality decisions.
Your idea holds as long as the parliament comes up with majoritiy decisions at all, which is not a given. There can be a situation where all parties vote down whatever any other party is coming up with. To make them work within administration, legal framework and politics, the decisions of parliament should also be somewhat conclusive, which again is not a given with random majorities. And if parliament is able to do that, it is likely not far from being able to come up with some coalition.
I love these informative vids
Twist: The cat is playing with the bell.
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And if that sounds needlessly complicated, can I introduce you to the Electoral College?
Our system is much more democratic, but believe me, most Germans have no idea either 😃 The electoral college is a stupid system in my eyes.
It isn’t needlessly complicated. Of course every system has advantages and disadvantaged, but there are definitely thoughts behind it to ensure a well working democratic procedure
❤❤❤ "Personalisiertes Verhältniswahlrecht" / "Mixed-Member Proportional Representation" ❤❤❤
I like to watch these even though I know the answer. My Politics minor wasn't for nothing lol
Im going to re-watch this video on election day so neither of the introductions apply 😎
Edit neither of those introductions apply!
Do you want to break the universe?
@@Leofwine Isn't that what we're here for?
What have we got here? A fucking comedian! Private Joker!
i am watching it coincidentally on election day!
Honestly, with you being a german citizen and all, if you were to stand for election as chancellor, I'd vote for you above all the candidates we have right now.
But he just explained that you cannot vote directly for the chancellor...
@@NPSao That's true, yes.
He would have to create a new party (bcs none of the existing ones really appeal to me)
@@dorderre Nope, he can be chancelor without a party. Just have the president present him and make enough parlamentarians vote for him (by whatever means neccessary).
That's not a hard choice, considering the candidates. Fun Fact: Rewboss has been asked to candidate four years ago by an actual party. I just don't remeber if it was by Die Partei or the Piratenpartei (and I'm too lazy at the moment to search for the video where he mentoined that...)
It went very good.
neither watching this before nor after election day! :D
As an American who is interested in Germany, I found it quite informative... and entertaining! The bell was quite comedic, as was the cabinet pun at the end! By the way, past Rewboss, the coalition-forming only took a little over two months (is this typical?), and its what your country calls an _Ampelkoalition._ Thanks for the video!
Ding ding!
My vote goes to any party that promises to ban polka music.
Not if they later betray us and drop that policy!
You can only vote for one, not for any.
And to ban polka is as esoteric as banning the Aliens. You ban something not existing.
Tears in levans polka :(
As I am watching from after the election: The SPD narrowly won and formed a coalition with both FDP and Greens, the latter had disappoiting results. A Schwampel was avoided as Lindner and Habeck prefered to tell Scholz what to do.
I Like that free armadillo idea. More convincing than all the actual party's programs. Where do I have to make my cross?
Vote party b duh
One remaining issue is that there is no time limit for the president to nominate someone. Most have a rule for that, such as giving them the directive to make their choice within a month of the election (or possibly the date the electoral board certified the election or after it was officially recognized by a high court or something of that nature), maybe with the ability to give an extension (the number of times they may extend may be limited). This could turn out to be a wild card in the coalition formation process.
That is now more true than ever.
Thank you very much! :-)
Great explanation but the ringing of the bell is really irritating.
Thank You
The most interesting election in my lifetime here (about 25 years)
2002 was also a very narrow margin..6000 votes decided the elections..
Good video! :)
I am so interested in how this election's gonna end
Love the new outro style 🤩
Well done. Also, ding ding
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In short, it's a parliamentary system and, because it's a PR system, coalitions are the norm, and if nobody can agree it gets messy.
as it is in the US, almost always now. votes are almost perfectly split 50/50. one guy doesn't vote, or dies, or loses his seat, and voila, the other party has the majority. and no, the are going hard by party line nowadays. Now that is a mess
The last and first time a non-member of the Bundestag was chosen and elected was the election of Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1966. The CDU-fraction of the Bundestag was simply unable to find someone from their own ranks to fit into that job.
And so they chose a former member of the NSDAP whose role during the "Third Reich" was controversial at best.
@@christophpleininger5876 If you search long enough you will find what you want. Kiesinger was the most harmless person we ever had in charge of anything. He was defamed because the Klarfelds wanted to make themselves important.
@@christiankastorf1427
Actually, Kiesinger was a carrierist. He joined the NSDAP in order to make a career, and after the war joined the CDU in order to easier climb up the ladder. He was an attempts to hold old Nazis in the CDU electrorate, as the NPD was starting to gain those votes.
And historically speaking it was embarrasing.
I want my Armadillo! They taste so good.
Is this some english phrase ? Something like Freibier ?
@@holger_p It is not, to my knowledge. I think they're just trying to be Wow-Shocking/morbid for a laugh.
Wonderful video, it's just a shame you recorded the audio on a tram *dingding* :s
Andrew, nicely explained. In your next video, hopefully before election day, please explain the word "Überhangmandat". Because I fear that the Bundestag, huge as it is, will even grow more in size this year, and we will spend more money for another Sesselfurzer.
Wie ich woanders schon erklärte: Sitzanzahl = 28658 / CSUZweitstimmenprozente. Beispiel: CSU erhält in Bayern 33,5% → Bundestag wird 856 Sitze erhalten.
(Hintergrund: Die CSU wird wahrscheinlich alle bayerischen 46 Wahlkreise gewinnen, damit 46 Mandate über die Erststimme erreichen. Ihr Zweitstimmenergebnis in Bayern ist auf Bundesebene durch 6,23 zu dividieren. Die 46 Sitze müssen nun dieser Prozentzahl entsprechen, und schon hat man obige Formel. Die CSU wird durch ihre massive Zahl an Überhängen alle anderen Überhänge anderer Parteien dominieren; deren Überhänge gehen in den Ausgleichsmandaten auf; deshalb kann man sich hier auf die CSU beschränken.)
I am okay with a coalition with no free armadillo per household and also can accept a ban of polka music.
But only if also Heino ist banned and dog taxes are abolished.
You want a four party coalition?
@@renerpho I should prefer a coalition for free parties, but I could also like a fo(u)r party coalition.
Did you see the "Die Partei"-spots:
"egalité
liberté
FCKAFD"
I approve that, egalité, liberté and the last point has to be fulfilled.
Information from the Future: Olaf Scholz became Chancellor! :-)
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4:56 the eyebrow made me laugh so hard xD
Can you make a video discussing the German President? As well as one discussing the German Cabinet? Thanks. I am fan of your work.
Well, short answer, but I leave the remainder to the expert here on this channel: the German president is not allowed to be member of any party - if he was before, he has to quit first. His (we never had a "her" yet) tasks are mainly representative (like the British Queen😃) and moral towards parliament and public. However s/he has also some executive powers, like a right of "veto" in a disagreement between "Bundestag" and "Bundesrat" (also needs several rounds though), or dissolving the elected executive in very special, rare cases.
The cabinet is just the ministers (or secretaries of state - depending which country you are speaking about) that are nominated by the chancellor. In a coalition of parties usually the ministries are distributed between the various fraction and agreed upon beforehand.
It seems all very complicated, and most Germans do not know all the mechanisms that make our democracy so much better than the American one.
I think he already said, that could be said about the President. Politically, he is as important as the Queen. Sometimes it can be the moral instance.
As I'm writing this, the election has happened. Please keep us posted as other "things" happen.
I sometimes wish the parties would stop naming their candidates, since they can't be elected directely anyway, and just make a campaign based on a program instead of strengths and weaknesses of their candidate for chancellour.
Wouldn't that be a novel idea? ;)
Yes. But it will not work. Only a small minority of voters is interested in election programs. Most are only interested in: Who get´s the job. And the need for coalition governments is indeed a problem for election programs: What the party wants to do is one thing, what is layed out in a coalition treaty is a whole other story.
Not really, because the people a party would chose for chancellor is telling the voters a lot about the direction a party is heading in. Just the fact that the CDU considers Merz and Söder suitable options is a red flag. But it would be nice if we wouldn't be bombed with prognoses prior to the elections...it influences the voters too much imho.
It's really simple: If you have a charismatic candidate, present him or her. If not, try to win on topics... good luck.
@@Pyriold Charisma isn't exactly of the main features of German chancellors.
@@swanprideExept for Willy Brandt xD
Dont know if you have a pet. But if you do, you missed a golden oportunity to show them after "round 3" with a bell in their paws :D
Cats famously don't take direction.
Well, if we are searching for a chancellor, whom we can irritade with a bell, we have found the right man!
And he even is a German citizen!
I love Staatsangehörigkeitland
technically even in 1957 there was not 51% of the votes for 1 party since the union consists of 2
1:25
Percentage of seats or or percentage of votes?
Seats, but those are distributed proportionally, so they align with the votes.
@@BrokenCurtain well mostly, the 5% hurdle does skew the results a little
@@ManOfTheWeek596 Also, up to 3 overhang mandates may be unbalanced since the last change of the voting law.
And that‘s why I find it strange that the french system doesn‘t even know the concept of coalitions, and they don‘t even try to avoid a minority government by that way. So now they are in that state and will have to try for approval of candidates of other parties for every decision.
hoping for some improvements for democracy in the next legislature period
~9 million of the 83million germans that are adults and not allowed to vote
every other migrant doesnt have Staatsbürgerschaft
that means for example every 8th person you pass in NRW isnt allowed to vote
It went not great
And then white smoke rises from the Reichstag building.
I think they abolished burning stuff inside the Reichstag, for historical reasons.
Habemus Kanzler!
1:10 *postwar
Well, the Bundestag didn't exist before the war. But even if you include the Reichstag elections from 1871 onwards (when Germany was finally unified), the only times one party officially received an absolute majority, it was the only party on the ballot paper. I am discounting those elections, however, because they were obvious shams orchestrated by a totalitarian regime: the best result the NSDAP ever received in a multiparty election was 44%.
Excellent video! Can you now cover the areas of campaign funding and lobbying in Germany? America has been corrupted by both in recent years.
I left school before the Obama midterms but we still had decades of corruption/systemic failures to analyze (France, UK or Italy could have been on the exam too).
Given the 1777 constitution and the European iterations in the meantime it's surprising that the US has any semblance of stability.
Well if you think there is less corruption in Germany you've been fooled. Mist of the times politicians get overpayed positions in big companies they did a favor for. Or they'll profit themselves like the one time a person in charge of building governmental building told hus relatives what properties to buy beforehand to charge germany astronomical figures.
what's about those overhangmandates?
They will be converted into hangover mandates.
Die werden diesmal durch Ausgleichsmandate wieder ausgeglichen.
@@eltfell Sounds reasonable.
@@janschlumpf Fast. Seit der letzten Wahl rechtsreform dürfen bis zu 3 Überhangmandate unausgeglichen bleiben.
@@ole86 Weil Direktmandate fest vergeben werden, aber die Zusammensetzung des Bundestages nach den Zweitstimmen festgelegt wird. Daher werden Überhangmandate ausgeglichen.
Is there any chance to get 2-3 free cats instead of that armadillo?
The new rule is, you buy a pair and get more for free, than you can handle.
As a political science graduate, I spent a fair amount of time Google translate-ing the political slogans among the posters. I cannot understand what the LKR banner is trying to say though, especially with the long word on the lower side.
It says:
LKR Bavaria
Freedom, Values, Future
Engineers design the future
Craftsman build the future
…and gender equality officers be like?
Let us make it better!
Liberal Conservative reformer
In germany jobs are gendered
So a male doctors are Ärzte and Female doctors are Ärztinnen
male teacher are Lehrer and Female Teachers are Lehrerinnen
And so on.
So the „…and gender equality officers be like?“
Line is a wordplay in german
In german when we refer to a group of people we only use the male form.
So if you have a group of 3 Male teachers and 3 female teachers you would just say „Lehrer“ even if „Lehrerinnen“ is the female form
Now many progressives want to use Lehrer:innen or Ärzt:innen etc.
gender equality officers in german is
Genderbeauftragte
But this word dosent have a female form
So they made fun of progressives by still adding the „:innen“
To make it „Genderbeauftragte:innen“
To show that (for them) the way many progressives in germany try to gender is not compatible with our grammar
I hope i could explain it
can you talk about opinion polls and how accurate they are?
we have a few relatively good statistical institutes, *but* they usually agreed to not publish polls shortly before the elections to not influence the outcome. so, the polls of the 'good and seroius institutes' are usually a little older and only represent the opinions at that time (which can differ from the opinions at the election day). some 'less serious institutes' however did publish polls shortly before the elections in recent years, but they usually are less reliable.
lol, i understood that in 7th grade...
Because you were taught. Unlike other viewers here, who did not to go school in Germany. Nothing funny here.
For me, the question of the day is: Who rang that bell? The cat? The wife? Or was it put into the audio track during the edit? ;)
My bet is that it was the cat... ;)
time traveler here. OH DEAR GOD EVERYTHING IS BURNING
QQ: Does the mutual agreement made by parties get actually signed like a contract and does it get released in public ?
the final version is public (and sometimes even former versions get leaked) and i'm pretty sure, that someone has to sign it (probably the party leaders) - after all bureaucracy is one of our 'strengths'.
@@montanus777 Not that it's in any way legally binding....
@@Narethian of course not. a lot of things can happen in 4 years and it could lead to absurd consequences, when you have to decide something, that doesn't make any sense anymore, because the conditions changed.
The coalition agreement is signed by the party leaders, the chairmen of the parliamentary groups in the Bundestag, and the Secretary-Generals of the parties. For the last election (2018), those were: Angela Merkel (CDU), Olaf Scholz (SPD), Horst Seehofer (CSU); Volker Kauder (CDU), Andrea Nahles (SPD), Alexander Dobrindt (CSU); Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU), Lars Klingbeil (SPD) and Andreas Scheuer (CSU).
EDIT: In case of a coalition involving CDU/CSU, the rules are slightly different. Since CDU and CSU form a single fraction, there is no chairman for the CSU. The chairman for the CDU/CSU fraction will sign it, as will some designated member of the other party. Usually the chairman of the fraction belongs to the CDU party, and the other one will be the leader of the Bavaria regional fraction. In the list above, Alexander Dobrindt signed in that role. If we ever get a CSU member as leader of the CDU/CSU fraction in the Bundestag, the fraction would have to agree on who signs for the CDU party. My guess is it would be the leader of the second largest regional fraction, which is most likely North Rhine-Westphalia.
For the 2018 coalition agreement, see de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalitionsvertrag_der_19._Wahlperiode_des_Bundestages
Can the President nominate himself as the Chancellor? It feels fishy
We are not in Russia.
No! 😃 The President is not elected but agreed upon by all relevant parties, and not established at the same time as general elections take place. Presidencies often overlap several different governments. And one requirement for becoming president is that you are "independant"(party-less) by the time you are chosen. You cannot even nominate yourself as candidate for this office, others have to propose you. You can only accept or decline (has also happened before).
To be honest the British system is easier and I am a German.
I think you should mention a new verb "to lindner" -- joining Coalition talks for fun.
A minortity government would always be the best for a democracy. I don't understand why the governing coalition is "allowed" to have more than 49% - that just makes them lazy. If you don't always have the majority you actually need to make good decisions and convince the opposition. As in football I'm also in politics in favour of the 50+1 rule!
No. In Germany it would last exactly until the first budget voting. And Germany would be absorbed by an eternal power struggle between the "big elephants" of the various political parties, unable to make any relevant political decision. Thinking about a minority as best of all political solutions has absolutely nothing to do with the reality of Germany. We Germans are not Scandinavians - and even in Scandinavia minority governments are from being the best political solutions.
A minority government is a power vacuum, nothing more.
Rätedemokratie
Gibt's seit 1920 nicht mehr
mal ganz abgesehen von der politischen ideologie ist das in einer modernen volkswirtschaft rein praktisch schwer umsetzbar, wenn nur noch ein verhältnismäßig geringer bevölkerungsanteil in industriellen großbetrieben arbeitet (und das auch wesentlich kürzer als früher). daher ist es einfach praktischer, die 'demokratischen einheiten' an den wohnort und nicht den beruf/betrieb zu koppeln.
@@montanus777 Wegen der Mobilität ist auch das nicht mehr sinnvoll. Da wo man wohnt lebt man nicht immer.
@@holger_p das ist aber ein recht kleiner bevölkerungsanteil, der wirklich weit weg vom 1. wohnsitz seinen alltag verbringt
@@montanus777 nein das sind so 60% die nicht im Wohnort arbeiten 25% nicht im gleichen landkreis und 12% nicht im gleichen Bundesland. Besonders in den speckgürteln von Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen. Wenn ein Potsdamer will, dass es in Berlin an seinem Arbeitsplatz gut läuft, hat er per Wahl da nichts zu melden.