Elections Just Like That
am 22.05.2005 von German American Law Journal :: American Edition
CK - Washington. After an electoral loss of his party in the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Chancellor Schröder would like to disband the federal diet in Berlin and hold federal elections in the fall. In the regular cycle, such elections would be scheduled for the fall of 2005.
After the Weimar Republics failure with its weak constitution and permissiveness of elections at the drop of the hat, the German constitution now provides in Art. 68 that the Chancellor may disband the diet only with the consent of the president and only in the event that the majorities in the diet render the management of the government unworkable.
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