Whilst in the German capital, Berlin I was fortunate enough to visit the Reichstag which is there version of the Palace of Westminster in London.
After every election the Bundestag will elect a chancellor who is basically the Prime Minister of Germany and has the power to determine the guidelines surrounding any government policy that he or she wishes to introduce during there term in office.
They are also able to get rid of the Chancellor by calling a vote of no confidence in the same way that our parliamentary parties would do right here in the United Kingdom.
As with the UK parliament, members of the parliament in Germany have two offices one within their constituency and the other is located in Berlin within the Reichstag.
The opposition parties have the right to scrutinise the work of the political party that is in power aka the government.
2017 saw the start of the 19th electoral term which concluded in 2021, during that time there were 25, 671 written questions asked by members, 5,150 oral questions asked by the members to the federal government.
A total of 547 laws were passed with the plenary sitting a total of 239 times during that period, 31,000 printed papers were produced during that electoral term.
A new president of the Bundestag was elected in the year 2021 on the 26th of October, this role is the German version of our Speaker of the House in the United Kingdom.
To find out more about the work of the German Parliament click here: https://www.bundestag.de/en.
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