Expiry of electoral terms |
Expiry of electoral terms |
Article 115h [Expiry of electoral terms and terms of office] |
| (1) Any electoral terms of the Bundestag or of parliamentary assemblies of the Länder that are due to expire during a state of defence shall end six months after the termination of the state of defence. A term of office of the Federal President that is due to expire during a state of defence and the exercise of his functions by the President of the Bundesrat in case of the premature vacancy of his office shall end nine months after the termination of the state of defence. The term of office of a member of the Federal Constitutional Court that is due to expire during a state of defence shall end six months after the termination of the state of defence.
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| (2) Should it be necessary for the Joint Committee to elect a new Federal Chancellor, it shall do so by the votes of a majority of its members; the Federal President shall propose a candidate to the Joint Committee. The Joint Committee may express its lack of confidence in the Federal Chancellor only by electing a successor by a twothirds majority of its members.
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| (3) The Bundestag shall not be dissolved while a state of defence exists.
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