• VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    As a German I would say test that they actually keep up with all their duties. I feel like for many years ours do a terrible job, but at least they don’t try to overthrow the government or anything. So… test that they know and are willing to perform their duties:

    The president’s most prominent powers and duties include:

    • Proposing the chancellor to the Bundestag
    • Appointing and dismissing the chancellor and their cabinet ministers
    • Dissolving the Bundestag under certain circumstances
    • Declaring the legislative state of emergency under certain circumstances
    • Convening the Bundestag
    • Signing and promulgating laws or vetoing them under certain circumstances
    • Appointing and dismissing federal judges, federal civil servants, and commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces
    • Exercising the power to pardon individual offenders on behalf of the Federation
    • Awarding honors on behalf of the Federation
    • Representing Germany at home and abroad

    Currently, German presidency is a deportation track for political pensioners.