Talk:Federal Convention (Germany)

message: Hello, I think you can remove the stub message, there is nothing more to say about the Bundesversammlung. But some historic details I can add in the next days. But first I have to refresh my English a bit, not written for many years. --Grabert 23:32, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

message: "The candidate, whose party or parties have the majority, is considered to be the likely winner and mostly, he got the majority." Have there been any cases when the public affiliation of the majority members was not reflected in the result? matturn 12:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so. However, there are usually some "unfaithful electors" - e.g. in 2004, Horst Köhler got less votes than the total number of delegates from CDU, CSU and FDP, although these parties had pledged to vote for him. One elector even admitted publicly to voting for the "wrong" candidate.--Roentgenium111 (talk) 19:20, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem of the wording might be the part "have the majority". E.g. Herzog did not "have" the majority until the FDP withdrew their candidate after the second round.--Ziko (talk) 22:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unlikely success

message: The Bundestag is not "(the lower house of Germany's parliament)". The German constitution doesn't know terms of lower or higher, there is both Bundestag = parliament and Bundesrat, which is *not* a parliament.
--194.239.181.126 (talk) 17:42, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Bundesrat and Bundestag are two chambers within the German bicameral legislature. "Lower House" is not generally an official term anywhere - it is a descriptive term occasionally used for one of the houses in a bicameral system. AndrewRT(Talk) 18:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  A Lower House must needs be in some way lower. If not as to power, then as to e. g. nobility. Yet the Diet ranks above the Council in every way, except the somewhat oddity that the Council's President replaces the President of the Federation - in ordinary protocol however ranks below the President of the Diet. And that is probably for avoiding a formal or semi-formal Vice-President, as this office is passed around among the governors in annual terms. --77.4.95.188 (talk) 22:33, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "lower house"

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message: Hello, I would like to start this discussion (again) and ask to decide on the name of this institution and also on the name of the Bundesversammlung of the German Confederation of 1815. How about using "Federal Convention" for the 1949 organ to elect a president, because "convention" sounds more like a meeting during a shorter time. And "Federal Assembly" would be great for the 1815 organ that was a permanent institution. Or, does "assembly" sounds to English native speakers more like a parliamentary organ? Then "convention" may be more suited for the 1815 organ. Opinions? Ziko (talk) 19:32, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The legal translation of "Bundesversammlung" in English is "Federal Convention". I refer to the official website of the Bundestag (www.bundestag.de/en/parliament/function/federal_convention/federal_convention-201836) on which this designation is also used several times. Essixt (talk) 20:21, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Federal Convention or Federal Assembly