Election of the German Federal President 2022

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Election of the Federal President
by the 17th Federal Assembly
( 1472 members  - absolute majority: 737)
Standard of the Federal President
Berlin, February 13, 2022
Federal President
before the election
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
SPD


The next election of the German Federal President is scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 13, 2022 at the Paul-Löbe-Haus in Berlin . The 17th Federal Assembly will elect the next Federal President . The term of office of the current incumbent, Frank-Walter Steinmeier , ends on March 18, 2022. In accordance with Article 54 (4) of the Basic Law, the Federal Assembly must convene no later than 30 days in advance. Steinmeier is running for a second term.

Composition of the Federal Assembly

Allocation of seats in the 17th Federal Assembly
         
A total of 1472 seats

Pursuant to Article 54 (3) of the Basic Law, the Federal Assembly is composed of the 736 members of the German Bundestag elected in the 2021 federal elections and an equal number of delegates elected by the state parliaments. Details are regulated by the law on the election of the Federal President by the Federal Assembly .

Possibilities of cooperation under consideration
for the election of the Federal President 		seats
seats total 1472
Absolute majority (from 737 seats)
            Union, SPD, Greens, FDP 1223
            SPD, Union 0836
            Union, Greens, FDP 0832
            SPD, Greens, FDP 0778
Composition by political groups and parliaments
total CDU / CSU SPD Green FDP AfD left FW /
BVB/FW 		SSW Other
Baden-Wuerttemberg 0094 025 0a13 a 035 0a12 a 009 0– 0– – –
Bavaria 0115 049 012 021 006 012 0– 15 – –
Berlin 0030 006 008th 007 002 002 05 0– – –
Brandenburg 0024 004 008th 003 00– 005 03 01 – –
Bremen 0006 002 002 001 00– 00– 01 0– – –
Hamburg 0016 002 008th 004 00– 001 01 0– – –
Hesse 0053 016 011 012 004 006 04 0– – –
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 0016 003 007 001 001 002 02 0– – –
Lower Saxony 0073 026 031 007 007 00b1 b 0– 0– – c1 c
North Rhine-Westphalia 0156 057 054 011 022 010 0– 0– – i.e2d _
Rhineland-Palatinate 0037 012 015 003 002 003 0– 02 – –
Saarland 0009 005 003 00– 00– 00– 01 0– – –
Saxony 0039 016 003 004 00– 011 05 0– – –
Saxony-Anhalt 0021 009 002 001 002 004 03 0– – –
Schleswig Holstein 0027 011 007 004 003 00e1 e 0– 0– 1 –
Thuringia 0020 005 001 001 00e1 f 005 07 0– – –
state parliaments 0736 248 185 115 062 072 32 18 1 3
Bundestag 0736 197 206 118 092 080 39 0– G1g _ H3 hours
Federal Assembly as a whole 1472 445 391 233 154 152 71 18 2 6
portion 000100% 0030.2% 0026.6% 0015.8% 0010.5% 0010.3% 004.8% 001.2% 00.1% 00.4%
aThe SPD and FDP parliamentary groups in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg submitted a joint election proposal. The odd places were proposed by the SPD, the even by the FDP/DVP parliamentary group.
bElection proposal of the now non-attached, last six members of the former AfD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament .
cElection proposal by three non-attached MPs (two are members of the Liberal-Conservative Reformers , one of the AfD), who were elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament for the AfD . The elected person is a member of the AfD.
i.eElection proposal by a non-party and non-attached member of parliament who was elected to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the AfD . The elected persons are non-partisan.
eElection proposal of the now non-attached, last three members of the former AfD parliamentary group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament .
fThe FDP only has the status of a parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament .
GNon-attached member of the SSW .
HNon-attached MPs who were elected to the Bundestag for the AfD. One is still a member of the AfD, one is a member of the German Center Party , one is independent.

initial position

Before the 2017 election , the then governing parties SPD , CDU and CSU had agreed on the then Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as their joint candidate. He was also supported by the FDP , Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and the SSW . Other candidates were nominated by Die Linke , AfD , Freie Wahlern (together with BVB/FW ) and the Pirate Party (in cooperation with Die PARTEI ). Steinmeier was elected with 74.3% of the votes cast.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the distances that need to be maintained there , the Federal Assembly is not using the plenary hall of the Bundestag in the Reichstag building this time , but is meeting on several floors in the Paul-Löbe-Haus , an office building of the German Bundestag next to the Reichstag building.

candidates

speculation beforehand

The Federal President can be re-elected once; Frank-Walter Steinmeier can therefore compete again. At the end of 2019, the deputy federal chairman of the FDP and Bundestag vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki advocated a second term for Steinmeier. Individual politicians from the CDU , CSU and SPD agreed with him. Steinmeier himself did not rule out running for office again in September 2020, but did not want to confirm it either. In May 2021, in an interview with Markus Feldenkirchen Steinmeier , FDP chairman Christian Lindner pledged his party's support for a second term. The prerequisite for this is that the Federal President declare himself ready. He was succeeded in the same month by the Prime Minister of Thuringia, Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke).

There has been a lot of discussion about a first woman as Federal President, and there has been speculation about Katrin Göring-Eckardt as a candidate for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.

During the formation of the Federal Government from the SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and FDP , the CDU politician Hendrik Wüst spoke out in favor of a woman from the CDU as a candidate for the Federal President. Individual party colleagues, including the later chairman Friedrich Merz , agreed. Apart from the Union , such a candidacy without the support of the Greens would have no chance of defeating Steinmeier. However, several Union politicians spoke out against a pure counting candidate .

At the end of January 2022 it became known that the federal chairman of the Free Voters Hubert Aiwanger had proposed the Bavarian state parliamentarian Eva Gottstein to the party leadership, the state parliamentary groups of the Free Voters Rhineland-Palatinate and the cooperating Brandenburger United Citizens' Movements/Free Voters as a counting candidate in mid-January . The Free Voters Bavaria parliamentary group , on the other hand, brought its member Tobias Gotthardt into play, who won a vote against Gottstein.

Nominated Candidates

The following candidates were nominated. Indicated are the party to which the candidate belongs, if different, that which nominated him and in italics the parties and associations supporting the candidate:

candidates
image Surname Political party supported by
Frank Walter Steinmeier
 Frank Walter Steinmeier SPD CDU , CSU , Greens , FDP , SSW
Gerhard Trabert
 Gerhard Trabert non-party
(suggestion left )
Max Otte
 Max Otte CDU (party exclusion ongoing) ( AfD
proposal )
Stefanie Gebauer
 Stefanie Gebauer Free voters BVB/FW
  1. ↑ On the day his candidacy became known, Otte was excluded from exercising his membership rights by the Federal Executive Committee in accordance with Section 11 (6) of the party statutes. In addition, party exclusion proceedings have been initiated under Section 11(1) of the party statutes, which a party court will have to decide on.

Frank Walter Steinmeier

On May 28, 2021, Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced his candidacy for a second term. His party announced support for the candidacy. On December 22, 2021, the party leader of the FDP and Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner confirmed the support of the Liberals for the incumbent Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The party and parliamentary group leaders of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen also announced on January 4, 2022 that they would support Steinmeier's re-election. All three traffic light parties, which have an absolute majority in the 17th Federal Assembly , support Steinmeier's election. On January 5, 2022, the Union parties CDU and CSU also announced that they would also support Steinmeier's second term. On January 15, 2022, the SSW , the party of the Danish and Frisian minority in Schleswig-Holstein, also spoke out in favor of Steinmeier being re-elected Federal President.

Gerhard Trabert

On January 9, 2022, Die Linke announced that it would nominate the non- party doctor Gerhard Trabert , who ran in the 2021 federal election as a direct candidate supported by the Left in the constituency of Mainz .

Max Otte

On January 24, 2022, at the suggestion of AfD federal spokesman Tino Chrupalla , the federal executive board and state chairmen of the AfD nominated the new right-wing economist and chairman of the right-wing conservative associationWerteunion Max Otte , a member of the CDU, as the party's official candidate. Four board members and two of the 16 state chairmen, including the long-time federal spokesman Jörg Meuthen , spoke out against Otte's candidacy, who was also a member of the board of trustees of the AfD-affiliated Desiderius-Erasmus Foundation until 2021 .

Meuthen described Otte's nomination as "strategically wrong and imprudent" and warned of a " bottom shot to the detriment of the party". Regarding Otte's chances of success, Meuthen said his candidacy was "roughly as important as the falling sack of rice in China , because the AfD candidate will definitely have nothing to do with Bellevue Palace ". In addition to a majority of the AfD committees, representatives of the Union of Values ​​also spoke out in favor of Otte as a candidate.

Otte's nomination sparked controversy within the group of supporters of the Union of Values. The former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Hans-Georg Maassen , resigned from the association after Otte's candidacy.

Because of the "urgent and serious case of behavior damaging to the party", the CDU Otte withdrew all membership rights on the same day and opened a party exclusion procedure. Observers saw a unity on a personnel issue that had not been seen in the Union for a long time. Nobody, not even one of the conservatives within the party, jumped on Otte.

Stefanie Gebauer

On February 3, 2022, the Free Voters announced that they would nominate the physicist Stefanie Gebauer as a candidate for the election of the Federal President.

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