Lets take a look at something that most people in the USA do not know about. How the government of Germany works.
It is strange, and to answer an instant thought you might have, Germany is not actually a democracy with a president like in the USA.
How does this fit together?
Germany is a Democratic and federal Parliamentary. So, there are parts that look like how the USA politics work, but with subtle differences.
CSU, AFD, SPD, GRÜNE (green), LINKE, SSW. So, if you want to know which one is which, ask one of the AI’s online.
The people vote in there respective states for their state leaders. 16 states in Germany!
List of German States
State Name Capital
Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart
Bavaria (Bayern) Munich
Berlin Berlin
Brandenburg Potsdam
Bremen Bremen
Hamburg Hamburg
Hesse (Hessen) Wiesbaden
Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) Hanover
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schwerin
North Rhine-Westphalia Düsseldorf
Rhineland-Palatinate Mainz
Saarland Saarbrücken
Saxony (Sachsen) Dresden
Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) Magdeburg
Schleswig-Holstein Kiel
Thuringia (Thüringen) Erfurt
Then, every 4 years they vote for a Chancellor. This is not the president. The president
of Germany has very little power. Its equal to that of the Chief of State for the USA.
Once the vote is in for the majority party winner, the president swears in the leader of that party to become Chancellor.
Then that Chancellor needs to find leaders of the other group to join his party in collaboration. If that fails, then they have to decide what to do. Only after the collaboration is agreed on, does the government start its daily business. berlin-reichstag.jpg
