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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Danish parliamentary election, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The election marked the second time in a row that the Social Democrats were not the largest party in the parliament, a change from most of the 20th century.
The results of parliamentary elections held in Portugal since 1975 (now including results of the early legislative election held on Sunday, February 20, 2005), as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Portuguese legislature are available in Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.
Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand since 1996 and in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1972.
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  Politics of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, Bundestag and Bundesrat.
For example, in the middle of January 2001, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture was renamed to Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture as a consequence of the BSE crisis.
Half an hour after the election results, the SPD chairman Franz Müntefering announced that the chancellor would clear the way for premature federal elections by the means of a purposely lost vote of confidence.
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 German federal election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German federal elections took place on September 18, 2005 to elect the members of the 16th German Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany.
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in a similar situation in 1983 that Chancellors may not ask the President for the Bundestag's dissolution merely for the sake of their desire for an early election; they have to have a real problem getting a majority for his legislation.
Early election polls during summer 2005 from 6 organizations showed a solid lead for the CDU/CSU with a share of the vote ranging between 41% and 43%, and the SPD trailing at between 32% and 34%.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_federal_election,_2005   (3204 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the German Bundestag
As a result, for the 1953 election the five percent threshold was set at the federal level, and the number of parties represented in the legislature dropped to seven.
However, from 1998 to 2005 the country was ruled by a coalition of the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens, with the CDU/CSU, the F.D.P. and the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in opposition.
The Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) consists of a lower house, the Bundestag, whose members are directly elected by universal adult suffrage, and an upper house, the Bundesrat, composed of representatives appointed by the Länder.
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The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 and the G4 nations, and is a founding member of the European Union.
According to a the microcensus conducted by the German federal office of statistics in 2005, 19% of the country's residents are of foreign or partially foreign descent.
In 2005, the German government reached a controversial agreement with Russia in building a gas pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea directly from Russia to Germany.
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 German federal election, 2005 - Definition, explanation
The German federal election, 2005 is expected to be conducted on September 18, 2005 to elect members to the Bundestag (lower house) of Germany.
The announcement of the planned election by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder followed the defeat of the Social Democratic Party in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany's most populous state) on May 22, 2005, which granted the Christian Democratic Union a landslide victory and strengthened its majority in the Bundesrat, the legislature's upper house.
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in a similar situation in 1983 that the Chancellor may not ask the President for the Bundestag's dissolution only for the sake of his desire for an early election; he has to have a real problem getting a majority for his legislation.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/ge/german_federal_election__2005.php   (402 words)

  
 Ten Facts About the Federal Elections 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Following their unprecedented defeat in the regional election in North Rhine Westphalia in May 2005, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, believing he needed a fresh mandate in order to carry forward his reform package Agenda 2010, announced that he would set the process in motion towards early Federal Elections, to be held in 2005.
On 1 July 2005, Chancellor Schröder put forward a vote of confidence with the intention of losing it in order to be able to ask Federal President Horst Köhler to dissolve the Bundestag and announce early general elections.
Voting Abroad: Germans who have the right to vote but live abroad or are outside their home constituency on 18th September 2005 can participate in the general elections through postal ballot.
www.german-embassy.org.uk /ten_facts_about_the_federal_el.html   (941 words)

  
 German Elections: What Happens Now? | Election 2005 | Deutsche Welle | 22.07.2005
German law states that elections must take at the latest 60 days after parliament was dissolved.
According to them, early elections can only occur if the chancellor no longer can rely on his coalition to support him, something they say is not true, and hence, his call for a vote of confidence based on a lack of support was invalid.
The German constitutional court already examined the legitimacy of a parliamentary vote of confidence in 1983.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1656337,00.html   (593 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 2005, the German government reached a controversial agreement with Russia in building a gas pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic sea directly from Russia to Germany, in spite of protests of Poland and some other Central European countries.
9% of the population is not ethnically German.
Again, the German Bachelor Degree differs from international standards as it is a rather hard degree trying to reconcile the economy's demand for readymade employees with a shorttime degree by packing the bulk of the original 4,5 year Magister Degree's subject matter into a 3 year course.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/germany   (8794 words)

  
 Official provisional result of the 2005 Federal Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When the by-election has been held in constituency 160 and should a constituency candidate be elected there who belongs to a party that has surpassed the electoral threshold, i.e.
Therefore, in the provisional election result, the last list places of the parties in the Free State of Saxony that have been included in the distribution of mandates will be subject to a degree of uncertainty.
In the 2005 Bundestag elections, the share of invalid second votes was 1.6 percent (2002: 1.2 percent).
www.german-embassy.org.uk /official_provisional_result_of.html   (704 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Germany
This began the German Reich, usually translated as "empire", but also meaning "kingdom", "domain"?title=or "realm".
The German social market economy (German: soziale Marktwirtschaft) helped bring about the "economic miracle"?title=(the German "Wirtschaftswunder") that rebuilt Germany from ashes after World War II to one of the most impressive economies in Europe.
Still today, Ludwig Erhard, minister of economics in the Adenauer administration (1949-1963) and later chancellor (1963-1966), is widely recognised as having been the "father"?title=of this profound rise in the country's economic and social wealth.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Germany   (5605 words)

  
 The Bundestag in Brief
As Germany’s parliament, the German Bundestag stands at the centre of the country’s political life and is its supreme democratic organ of state.
In the last Bundestag elections held on 18 September 2005, 614 Members were elected from five parties.
On 22 November 2005, the Members of the German Bundestag elected Angela Merkel (CDU/CSU) as Germany’s first female Federal Chancellor.
www.bundestag.de /htdocs_e/parliament/index.html   (264 words)

  
 Results of 2005 German federal election - Wikinews
The voters in the constituency of Dresden I are not participating in today's election, the death of a candidate there forced a delayed by-election for the 2nd of October.
The all dominating topics of the election campaign were unemployment and the state of the German economy.
All text created after September 25, 2005 is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License unless otherwise specified.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/Results_of_2005_German_federal_election   (1239 words)

  
 Ask Us A Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the past decades, much of the freight traffic shifted from rail to road transport, which led the Federal Government to introduce a motor toll for lorries in 2005.
Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) is the major German railway infrastructure and service operator.
For commuter and regional services, franchises of various sizes are granted by the individual states, though largely financed from the federal budget.
www.avoo.com /wiki/Germany   (7018 words)

  
 Davids Medienkritik: 2005 German National Election: Unexpected Results
It looks like the German elections have ended with Angela Merkel's CDU fairing much worse than predicted...it looks like she will be able to claim the Chancellorship but only via [Read More]
Germans have a century-long tradition of believing what their newspapers and fashionable writers tell them.
And with the exceptional election result for the FDP, it is unlikely that anyone else in the party would dare to challenge their leader on that.
medienkritik.typepad.com /blog/2005/09/2005_german_nat.html   (7726 words)

  
 Germany Biography,info
Today, defence spending equals about 1.2% of German GDP, compared to the NATO average of 2.3% and the United States' more than 4%.
Critics argue that the current budget of €24.4 billion is too small to finance the necessary transformation of the Bundeswehr into a well-equipped force ready for NATO and UN led missions abroad.
Opponents argue that the transformation from a manpower based army securing the Eastern border to a modernised force with fewer soldiers on the payroll is duly reflected in a lower budget.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Germany   (6109 words)

  
 *Hip Hop Republican*: "Angie! Angie!"
(born July 17, 1954 in Hamburg) is a German politician and the opposition's candidate to become Chancellor of Germany in the upcoming German federal election, 2005.
She is a Member of the German Parliament, representing a constituency which includes the districts of Nordvorpommern and Rügen, as well as the city of Stralsund, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Dell Gines is the President of the The Urban Center for Economic Education and Development,., He has been blogging since June 2005 at Dellgines.com AKA Adequate Defense, and discusses a vast array of topics dealing from Urban Culture, Politics, and Faith.
hiphoprepublican.com /2005/08/angie-angie.html   (444 words)

  
 German federal election (September 18, 2005)
What they´re not taking into account is that potential PDS and/or WASG voters who are outright opposing the alliance between the two parties could vote for some other party (or for no party at all) in the end.
The first paragraph about her being a rebel in the Commie East Germany of her youth is especially hokey.
It seems the claim that she was "an anti-communist rebel" is based on the fact that she sung the socialist Internationale in English on one occasion in school.
www.uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=22509.150   (2620 words)

  
 Edmund Stoiber's View of the World | Election 2005 | Deutsche Welle | 21.08.2002
As an important engine of the German economy, premiers in the state of Bavaria have always maintained diplomatic relationships with the most powerful countries in the world.
In their joint election policy platforms earlier this year, the Christian Democrats criticized the growing defense technology gap between Europe and the U.S., in particular the "emaciation" of Germany’s military.
On the deployment of German troops abroad, Stoiber has said he has no general objections but has indicated he is against sending troops to the Middle East.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,613795,00.html   (537 words)

  
 News and articles [Archive] - International forum
TV debate between German chancellor Schröder and opposition leader Merkel held
Chicago White Sox win 2005 American League baseball pennant
World Trade, Bird Flu to be discussed at 2005 APEC
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