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Members of the German Bundestag seated in the Reichstag chamber in Berlin during a parliamentary session, with a large eagle emblem on the wall behind the speaker's podium. Reichstag Bundestag
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Bundestag
Bundestag The German Bundestag, Berlin.

Bundestag

German government
Also known as: Federal Assembly, Federal Diet
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Reichstag
ReichstagThe chamber of the German Bundestag, with an interior view of the Reichstag dome.

Bundestag, one of the two legislative chambers of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Bundestag is the lower house, representing the nation as a whole and elected by universal suffrage under a system of mixed direct and proportional representation. Members serve four-year terms. The Bundestag in turn elects the chancellor (prime minister), who is the head of government. It meets in the Reichstag building in Berlin. The term Bundestag was also applied to the federal Diet of the German Confederation (1815–66).

This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray.