Global InformationList of members of the 20th Bundestag information
| 20th Bundestag | |||||
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| Legislative body | Bundestag | ||||
| Jurisdiction | Germany | ||||
| Meeting place | Reichstag building, Berlin | ||||
| Term | 26 October 2021 – | ||||
| Election | 26 September 2021 | ||||
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| Members | 735 | ||||
| President | Bärbel Bas (SPD) | ||||
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This is a list of members of the 20th and current Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. The 20th Bundestag was elected in the 26 September 2021 federal election, and was constituted in its first session on 26 October 2021.[1]
The 20th Bundestag is the largest in history with 735 members, 137 seats larger than its minimum size of 598. Originally, it had 736 and comprised 206 members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 197 members of the CDU/CSU, 118 members of Alliance 90/The Greens (GRÜNE), 92 members of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), 83 members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), and 39 members of The Left (LINKE), as well as one member of the South Schleswig Voters' Association, who sits as a non-attached member.[2]
Matthias Helferich, who was elected for the AfD, withdrew from its parliamentary faction before the first session of the Bundestag.[3] Deputies Johannes Huber and Uwe Witt also left in December 2021.[4] Robert Farle quit the AfD faction in September 2022,[5] as did Joana Cotar who also resigned from her former party in November.[6] Thomas Lütze defected from LINKE to the SPD in October 2023,[7] as did Sahra Wagenknecht, Amira Mohamed Ali, and eight others who joined Wagenknecht's namesake faction Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) while staying in the LINKE seats.[8] The LINKE group dissolved on 6 December after announcing earlier in November that it could no longer form a parliamentary faction for falling below the 37-member minimum.[9] As a result, the AfD and SPD groups consist of 78 and 207 members respectively.[10] The BSW was officially founded as a party on 8 January 2024.[11][12] After the decision to dissolve the LINKE faction, the 28 remaining members of their party applied for and received group status on 2 February 2024. The ten members from the BSW, who had previously left LINKE, were also recognized as a group on the same day.[13]
Due to irregularities in the 2021 federal election in Berlin, there was a partial repeat of the election on 11 February 2024 in around 20% of the capital's electoral districts. With lost votes and lower voter turnout, there was a shift in mandates between the state associations of the SPD, GRÜNE, and LINKE, and the FDP lost a leveling seat, meaning that only 734 Bundestag members, of whom 91 are FDP, now sit.[14] The mandate changes were carried out by a Council of Elders resolution on 4 March.[15][16]
The President of the Bundestag is Bärbel Bas (SPD).[17]
- ^ "Bärbel Bas elected new President of the German Bundestag". Bundestag. 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Results". Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ^ "Waiver after NS statement: Helferich is not a member of the AfD parliamentary group". Detv.us. 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Two deputies leave AfD and Bundestag parliamentary group". Der Spiegel (in German). 30 December 2021.
- ^ "Deputy Farle leaves AfD faction". Tagesschau (in German). 9 September 2022.
- ^ "AfD politician Joana Cotar resigns from party and Bundestag faction". Der Spiegel (in German). 21 November 2022.
- ^ "The Left Bundestag deputy Lutze switches to Berlin's SPD". Die Zeit (in German). 9 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ "Wagenknecht tritt aus Linke aus - Ende des Fraktionsstatus droht". Tagesschau (in German). 23 October 2023.
- ^ "After a falling out with Sahra Wagenknecht: The left-wing faction in the Bundestag decides to dissolve". Der Spiegel (in German). 14 November 2023.
- ^ "Allocation of seats in the 20th German Bundestag". Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ "Sahra Wagenknecht: Partei BSW offiziell gegründet". Der Spiegel (in German). 8 January 2024. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht gründet sich in Berlin als Partei". Stern (in German). 8 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ Lukas Stern (2 February 2024). "Bundestag beschließt Gruppenstatus für Die Linke und BSW". Bundestag. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ "Bundestags-Nachwahl in Berlin - Leichtes Minus für Ampelparteien - Gewinne für CDU und AfD - ein FDP-Mandat fällt weg". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 12 February 2024.
- ^ "FDP-Fraktion verliert Sitz nach Wiederholungswahl in Berlin". Bundestag. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ "Beschluss Ältestenrat zu Mandatsverlusten nach der teilweisen Wiederholung der Bundestagswahl". Bundestag (Press release). 4 March 2024.
- ^ "Presidium". Bundestag. Retrieved 23 November 2021.