On October 18, 2005, the 16th German Bundestag held its inaugural meeting. On the same day, the President of Germany Horst Koehler Dismissed the Prime Minister Gerhard Schroder At the same time, the Schroeder government was entrusted to continue its work until a new federal government was formed. Norbert Lammert, the candidate for the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives and the Deputy Speaker of the previous Federal House of Representatives elected by the Alliance Party's parliamentary group, was elected as the Speaker of the new Federal House of Representatives by an absolute majority of votes. In the vote of 614 members of the Federal Parliament, Lammert obtained 91.9% of the affirmative votes. On September 27, 2009, the current Prime Minister of Germany was elected to the Bundestag Merkel The leading coalition party and its running partner, the Liberal Democratic Party, won more than half of the seats and will jointly form a cabinet to govern. On October 27, the 17th German Bundestag held its inaugural meeting. Norbert Lammert, the speaker of the last Bundestag, won re-election with 84.6% of the votes. Lammert is the speaker candidate elected by the Alliance Party's parliamentary group. He won the support of 522 members in the closed vote on the same day, another 66 members opposed, and 29 members abstained. [1]
